Università Roma Tre

The course of Physics and Physics Education has the general goals those ones of dealing with and giving to the future teachers, the knowledge an skills to became teacher of primary school. The way that is used to reach these goals is to study that parts of Classical Mechanics and Modern Physics both from a theorical point of view, sperimental and from an epistemological point of view.
A particular attention is reserved for education and teaching of the Physics try to transmit those methodologies that in part refer at a pedagogic tradition of reference, in part a new way of teaching Physics by rereading the Galilean thought.
Particular attention is given on the language of communication of coding and decoding that are much more effective to approach children to the scientific though and the achievement of a better awareness of himself and of the world around him.
This goal integrates to help the integration of disable children and to integrate positively the intercultural differences in the class.
The experiences of laboratory will be organized to conduct in natural way the child to a critical reflection and to curiosity, playing but always traying to induce to understand the importance using the rigor of Science.
The last goal is to help by effective teaching strategies the sociorelational aspect. In this sense the laboratory teamwork is a good way.
With the study of Physics and Physics Education the student will be able to achieve the following training objectives.
In terms of knowledge and understanding:
- know basic physics, using disciplinary, epistemological and historical elements;
- know the crucial topics of the teaching of physics as an introduction to scientific thought in pre-primaryand primary school.
In terms of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
- promote the ability to carry out educational activities appropriate to the age of children aimed at bringing them closer to the ideas of physics in an engaging and solid way, taking advantage of teaching materials, the resources of the school and the territory;
- promote an overall view of children's initiation into scientific thought on the physical world in the cycle of nursery school and compulsory schooling.
In terms of independent judgment:
- develop the ability to analyze educational and educational situations and events in schools and to make educational decisions;
- encourage the opening to renewal of teaching practices through the combination of historical, epistemological and didactic research.
In terms of teacher's communication skills:
- develop the ability to bring the gaze of physics and scientific thought closer to children with appropriate language, tools, examples, images, sounds, objects starting from experience and through problems, developing the capacity for dialogue in the scientific-philosophical field and the ability of geometric and symbolic representation.
In terms of future cultural development:
promoting skills and interest in the study of tireless and tireless updating in the field of elementary physics, history and epistemology of physics, through books and articles, conferences, courses and conferences, with discernment and depth.