Metamodelling Messages Conveyed in Five Statistical Mechanical Textbooks from 1936 to 2001

Niss, Martin

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dc.contributor.author	Niss, Martin	de
dc.date.accessioned	2010-09-09T06:06:00Z	de
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-29T22:57:56Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-29T22:57:56Z
dc.date.issued	2009	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/13429
dc.description.abstract	Modelling is a significant aspect of doing physics and it is important how this activity is taught. This paper focuses on the explicit or implicit messages about modelling conveyed to the student in the treatments of phase transitions in statistical mechanics textbooks at beginning graduate level. Five textbooks from the 1930s to the present are analysed with respect to their messages about the following issues: What is a good model? What is the purpose of modelling? What does it mean to understand a natural phenomenon? It is argued that these texts give the student quite different perceptions of these issues and thus what of it means to do physics.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Bildung und Erziehung	de
dc.subject.ddc	Education	en
dc.title	Metamodelling Messages Conveyed in Five Statistical Mechanical Textbooks from 1936 to 2001	en
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	International Journal of Science Education	de
dc.source.volume	31	de
dc.source.issue	5	de
dc.subject.classoz	Unterricht, Didaktik	de
dc.subject.classoz	Curriculum, Teaching, Didactics	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-134292	de
dc.date.modified	2010-09-13T14:43:00Z	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	en
ssoar.gesis.collection	SOLIS;ADIS	de
ssoar.contributor.institution	http://www.peerproject.eu/	de
internal.status	1	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.rights.copyright	f	de
dc.source.pageinfo	697-719
internal.identifier.classoz	10614
internal.identifier.journal	171	de
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	370
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1080/09500690701753836	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	de
internal.identifier.licence	7
internal.identifier.pubstatus	2
internal.identifier.review	1
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