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Methods of Teaching Physics in Soviet Secondary Schools

This volume is a collection of eight papers dealing with aspects of teaching physics to russian students in grades five through eleven. Topics of papers are (1) the present situation in the method of high-school physics and its bearing on the polytechnical instruction system, (2) the development of rational thought in students during the teaching of physics in the secondary school, (3) the electrical properties of the solid state to be taught in physics, (4) experimental findings concerning the teaching of heat and work in the ninth grade and direct current in the tenth grade, (5) some methodological aspects of teaching electromagnetic field phenomena in the secondary school, (6) the use of analogy in the secondary-school physics course, (7) the training of students for practical work in physics, and (8) technical creativity of students in physics hobby groups. Discussed also are (1) historical philosophy of the development of the physics curriculum from the time of the october revolution until 1959, (2) techniques for the development of rational thought in students by means of the physics course, (3) the uses and misuses of analogies as methodological tools for teaching physics, and (4) the special training of students for practical work. Published in moscow in 1959, this book was translated into english by the israel program for scientific translations. This document is available for $7.50 from daniel davey and company, 257 park avenue south, new york, new york 10010. (dg).

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