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Using neuroscience evidence to train pre-service physics teachers on the concepts of heat and cold
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Using neuroscience evidence to train pre-service physics teachers on the concepts of heat and cold
A Ezquerra1 and I Ezquerra-Romano2
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1287, GIREP-MPTL 2018 9–13 July 2018, San Sebastian, Spain
Citation A Ezquerra and I Ezquerra-Romano 2019 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1287 012038
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1 Department of Didactics of Experimental Sciences, Social Sciences and Mathematics. Faculty of Education. Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
2 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
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Abstract
Teachers must identify, manage and modify alternative conceptions in their students. However, research consistently highlights that future teachers prioritise disciplines' requirements rather than the educational needs of children. Moreover, some researchers have proposed that the way our senses work shapes the development of children's ideas. Neuroscientists have only recently started to understand how the senses transduce and transmit stimuli. In this study, we show an innovative initial training course of Didactics of Physics, which includes the latest understanding of the thermosensory system. We analysed the progression of the educational proposals written by future teachers. This analysis revealed the effect of integrating neuroscience contents in the initial training. We found that the neuroscience insights helped future teachers incorporating children's misconceptions in their proposals. Additionally, they lowered their expectations and became less frustrated. They understood that it is not expected to quickly modify pupils' alternative conceptions because they have a physiological component
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From Thermosensation to the Concepts of Heat and Temperature: A Possible Neuroscientific Component
Alternative conceptions in physics are ideas held by people regardless of their age, ability, sex, race and religion. The persistence and universality of these misconceptions suggest that there must be a common underlying factor found in all human beings. In this work, we suggest how the structure and arrangement of our thermosensory system shapes and constrains the creation of the concepts of heat and temperature. Firstly, we outline the main characteristics of alternative conceptions in physics. Then, we describe the neurobiology of thermosensation. The proteins sensitive to temperature changes can be classified as hot- and cold-sensitive. The nervous system maintains mostly this separation in hot- and cold-fibres and thermal information is integrated in specific areas of the central nervous system. Therefore, it seems that the neurobiological structure predisposes us to categorise stimuli into hot and cold. Understanding the relationship between alternative conceptions and the structure of the nervous system can improve the abilities of teachers to deal with students’ ideas. In particular, this knowledge could decrease the frustration of teachers, since they would understand that human physiology is a determinant factor. Therefore, they should not expect to easily modify their students’ alternative conceptions
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que también llamamos cercamiento de la reproducción. Éste toma la forma de
un reforzamiento actualizado de la división sexual del trabajo sin por ello
reducir el rol económico de las mujeres sino, en realidad, fortaleciéndolo. Un
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punto de partida no sólo nos permite ubicar las desigualdades de género en el
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pensar en alternativas a la actual organización social de la reproducción
teniendo en cuenta, de manera simultánea, las esferas de la familia, de las
administraciones públicas y de lo que se viene llamando el ámbito de “lo
común”. Es a partir de esta conceptualización que se avanza una
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concebir y convertir los cuidados y se reflexiona sobre la posibilidad, las
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