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Sacred cows in physics - towards a redefinition of physics education

Jonathan Osborne

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The article is a critique of physics education as currently practised in the UK and elsewhere. In particular it attacks the dominance of Newtonian physics and the overuse of quantitative physics; it discusses the value of practical physics, the changes in pedagogy enabled by new technology and the lack of the affective dimension in physics education arguing for change.

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Key concepts: Dominance (genetics), Physics education, Dimension (graph theory), Mathematics education, Physics, Modern physics, Theoretical physics, Epistemology