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SUMMARY:Everyday physics: New implications for psychological theory and ed
 ucational practice - Professor Christine Howe\, Fcaulty of Education\, Cam
 bridge University
DTSTART:20140311T163000Z
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CONTACT:Araceli Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nThere is a huge and increasing gap between education
 al and psychological perspectives on everyday physics\, which is potential
 ly damaging at both the practical and theoretical level. Science educators
  typically treat every day physics as a problem\, which inhibits mastery o
 f fundamental concepts. Psychologists emphasize virtuosity\, indicating aw
 areness of precisely these concepts in very young infants. So is the every
 day physics of interest to education an entirely separate system of knowle
 dge from the everyday physics that psychologists study\, and what practica
 l consequences follow from the answer? These are the issues that Christine
  Howe will address in her talk\, referring to results from\nsix recently c
 ompleted studies (funded by the ESRC) where primary school children worked
  on computer-simulated problems relating to force and motion\n\nProfile\nC
 hristine Howe is a psychologist who trained at the universities of Sussex 
 and Cambridge\, and who has held professorial appointments in both Psychol
 ogy and Education. Her main research interests are children’s reasoning 
 in science and mathematics\, peer interaction and conceptual growth\, and 
 communication and social relations amongst children. She has published sev
 en books and over 200 journal articles and book chapters. Christine has ed
 ited three academic journals and served on many editorial boards. She has 
 been elected to the Academy of Social Sciences\, and holds an Associate Fe
 llowship of the British Psychological Society\, whose Developmental Sectio
 n she has chaired. She has contributed to administration and policy making
  relating to academic research and postgraduate training at the local\, na
 tional and international levels. Her work informs school curricula around 
 the world.\n\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ in r
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