Meeting of the International
Commission on Physics Education (2006)
Minutes
Present: Pratibha Jolly
(Chair), Mauricio Pietrocola (Vice Chair), Dean
Zollman (Secretary), Diane Grayson, Hiroshi Kawatsu, Xingkai Luo, Elena Sassi, Hans-Joachim Schlichting, Vivien Talisayon,
Ian Johnston, Takatoshi Murata, Tae Ryun, Hyodom Toshio, Lakshman Dissanayake (August 17 only), Junehee
Yoo (representing Sung-Muk
Lee).
REPORTS ON CONFERENCES AND OTHER EVENTS
“World Conference on Physics & Sustainable
Development,”
9th Inter-American Conference on Physics
Education
“Toward Development of Physics for All”
IUPAP Meeting of Executive Council and Commission
Chairs
“Building Careers with Physics”
“Frontiers of Physics Education”
International Conference on Physics Education in
Brazil, 2008 (Pietrocola)
Strategies for Increased Participation of School
Teachers in Physics Education Meetings
Information about physics teacher education
degree programs at various universities around the world
Publications on physics education research
Proposal for a Latin American Physics Education
Network - LAPEN
ICPE BOOKS – REPORTS AND UPDATES
“Connecting Research in Physics Education with
Teacher Education”
ATTACHMENT A;
IX Interamerican Conference of Physics Education San José, Costa Rica 2006/07/03-07/07
ATTACHMENT B:
Temporary Report on International Conference on Physics Education 2006
Tokyo
ATTACHMENT C:
E-mail to Khalid Berrada Concerning the Conference in Marrakech
ATTACHMENT D:
ICPE Web site Statistics
ATTACHMENT E: Latin- American Physics Education
Network (LAPEN)
Pratibha
Jolly opened the meeting, welcomed and introduced Commission members, associate
members and guests.
Minutes of
the 2005 meeting in
The agenda
for this meeting was unanimously approved.
“World
Conference on Physics & Sustainable Development,”
October 31
– November 2, 2005 Durban, South
Africa Attended by Lakshman
Dissanayake, Diane Grayson, Pratibha
Jolly, Mauricio
Pietrocola & Dean Zollman
Mauricio presented a plenary talk on teacher education.
The
conference was summarized in the most recent newsletter. One outcome was a set of four
recommendations. (See p. 3 of newsletter.) This conference was considered a flagship
event of World year of Physics.
The Physics
Education stream was the most popular. A result of the conference was the
creation of workshops involving the Active Learning in Optics and Photonics
(ALOP) program. A workshop was held in
The recent
The working
group on teacher educator has been organized geographically into three
subgroups --
The Mobile
Physics project is moving forward as well.
Dianne suggested
that we need to identify Web site, possibly ICTP that would contains
the follow-up activities. It would be
good to have and "open source” format.
It was suggested that we need to decide if we want ICTP to host and then
approach them. Several people suggested that we cannot ask ICTP until we have a
better understanding of what we have and what we want. The minimum would be links. The group asked
that Elena, Pratibha and Dean ask the ICTP Director
what he needs lo make decision.
Mauricio reported that 150 participants from 13 countries
attended. The participants were mostly
teacher educators or physics education researchers. Discussions revealed similar problems in many
countries. Some effort is being made to
share teacher education materials.
Next
conference will be in
Takatoshi
Murata provided a written document which is included here as Attachment B. The attendance was much large than
expected. Participants offered 160
posters. A problem arose when many of
the poster presenters wanted to use computers.
This would have created an electrical overload; presenters needed to use
batteries.
The
Commission offered its formal thank you to the organizers of the conference.
24-25
February, 2006,
This
session was, in part, a new chairs orientation. The chairs of ICPE & C13
are now both on the Executive Council.
(C13 is Physics and Development.)
There may be an opportunity to link up with C13 in bigger way. Other commissions also might be interested
having ICPE represented on their commissions.
The overall impression is that there seems to be lot of interest in our
work. The next Council meetings will be
in
The details
of the General Assembly in
This
conference will be the first ICPE conference in
The Commission discussed the content of the
conference. Overall, members thought
that the topics to be covered were appropriate and would provide a broad view
of physics as a career. Commission
members requested an increase in two areas:
women in physics and the explicit involvement or students in the
conference. Increasing the number of
women in physics is a major goal of IUPAP.
Thus, we should be sure that each of our conferences addresses that
issue explicitly. How ICPE directly
addresses students was a question raised at the General Assembly. Dean offered to write a letter to the
conference organizers and request a specific session on Women and girls in
physics and urge the organizers include student participation. In the discussion of the budget (see below),
an issue concerning travel costs of the Commissioners was raised. Encouraging the organizers to consider
Commissioners as plenary speakers was added to the letter. The e-mail that was sent to Khalid Berrada
is included as Attachment C.
European
Physics Education Conference jointly meeting with GIREP, Rijeka/Opatija,
A primary
effort of EPEC is to bring together physicists and physics educators. The Commission unanimously approved
forwarding the request for €4,000 to the Council. We noted that our last request to support a
GIREP conference was denied by the Council.
We need to emphasize the international nature of GIREP and EPEC. We will asked GIREP
officers for statistics.
Mauricio stated that he is considering a conference in San Paolo for
2008. The topic would be “Physics
Education and Teaching Physics for Understanding.”
He believes
that the local support seems good and that it could draw significant
participation from
The
Commission had previously invited Mauricio to plan a conference for 2007. The time has been postponed for one year, but
the Commission agreed unanimously that it still supported this conference and
that the invitation is still valid.
As a follow
up to WCPSD Dean, Elena and Pratibha are discussing a
possible working conference on teaching physics with inexpensive
equipment. The conference would be held
in 2008 in
Gernot
Born wants to have a conference in Duisburg/Essen in 2009. The Commission encouraged him to move forward
with planning.
Vivien Talisayon submitted her last financial report. She received the thanks of the Commission for
long and excellent service.
Pratibha
suggested that we create a database of recipients of the news letter.
Elena noted that the present distribution
method of forwarding newsletters may lead to people getting multiple copies of
newsletter.
Ian noted
that he does not have University resources.
Thus, all costs must be covered.
Maintaining a database is expensive.
Pratibha thought that she can maintain such a
database in
Ian
proposed that the newsletter stay at 12 pages, with about ½of the content being
reports of conferences, related groups, etc. and the rest, articles about
physics teaching. He requested that Commission members be on the lookout for
articles that would be appropriate.
See Attachment D for
statistics.
It was
suggested that we register www.icpe.org
or some equivalent domain name. This
would save changing the web address every six years as the commission
changes. (Note after the meeting. Dean checked domains names and found that all
variations of icpe.xxx where xxx in not associated
with an individual country have already been registered. We will need to be more creative in a domain
name. For example the following are
available: goicpe.org, icpeweb.org and
webicpe.org.)
Pietrocola
[Chair], Zollman, Schlichting, Dissanayake
Strategies
for Increasing Participation
Mauricio
reported that a session for high school teachers was held as part of the
For leaders
of future meeting we need to write some suggestions to be put on the Website.
A good
session is to exchange ideas on what it is like to be a teacher in each
country. The working group will try to
get teachers to
One
difficulty is raising money. Elena noted
that at EPEC each National Physical Society was asked to support one teacher
and one young researcher,
Mauricio
stated that he had some funds to support teachers at the
Vivian
stated that the problem is not getting high school teachers but attracting
research physicists to ICPE conferences, she suggested that we should
distribute announcements to all Commissions
Talisayon
[Chair], Alarcon, Luo, Pietrocola
Vivien
presented a plenary talk at the meeting.
The contents of that talk and its publication in the proceedings will
represent a full report of the working group’s activities. She is willing to continue collecting and
disseminating the information. The general feeling of the Commission is that
this work should continue.
Jolly
[Chair], Talisayon, Zollman
No progress
to report. Elena noted that if something
is produced soon. it could be part of the book on “Connecting
Research in Physics Education with Teacher Education”
Dianne
reminded us that ICTP has a program to make journal articles available to scientists
in developing countries. A teacher can send e-mail to ICTP; then the article
returned by e-mail.
Proposal
for a Latin American Physics Education Network - LAPEN
Mauricio
relayed a request that Latin American Physics Education Network would like to
be linked to ICPE. See Attachment
E. LAPEN is planning an ALOP
workshop for next year. It will be LAPEN’s first activity.
LAPEN representatives are also discussing with
The
following motion was moved by Dean Zollman and seconded by Dianne Grayson. ICPE encourages LAPEN to take the lead in
physics education in Latin American and requests that the President of LAPEN
make regular reports to the Commission meetings. It passed unanimously.
Lakshman
reported that last week ASPEN sponsored 3-day workshop with
35-participants. The next General
Assembly will be held in either
Lakshman
agreed to work with Ian so that news about
Some folks
at the IUPAP General Assembly felt that IPCE should be doing more for
students. Sessions at meeting that are
specially aimed at schools students would be useful.
IUPAP has a
working group on women in physics. All
of our future meetings should include a focus on attracting girls to
physics. The general feeling of the
Commission was that we should inform conference organizers to have specific
sessions on issues of attracting and retaining girls and women to physics. These sessions should include information on
curricula and difference in treatment of males and females in physics teaching
and related activities.
We decided
that we would continue to discuss the Young Scientist Award that has been
approved by IUPAP. I promised to prepare
a short summary of the issues involved and distribute them to a subcommittee of
Dianne Grayson, Mauricio Pietrocola, and , Luo Xingkai. The task of
the subcommittee is to make sure that I stated the issues well and to add any
other necessary comments. After I hear
from the subcommittee, I will distribute the revised issues document to all of
ICPE.
I had promised
to get this note to you by 1 September. Unfortunately, GIREP seems to have
erased my memory. I just remembered last
night.
Please
remember that Pratibha needs to tell the IUPAP
Council something when it meets in the middle of October.
Please respond
to me with your comments by next Monday, 18 September.
Issues:
One of the
primary concerns is the difference between the type of efforts that ICPE
attempts to encourage in the physics community and those of most of the other
Commissions. Most Commissions focus on a
relatively narrow area of physics. They
can easily concentrate on research in a specific field. In our case we are attempting to foster high
quality research in physics education and equally high quality teaching of
physics at all academic levels. Thus,
the question arises whether we should be offering an academic award for
teaching, a professional award for research, or both.
During our
discussions commission members expressed no clear view that the award should be
only an academic one or only a professional one. Some members seemed to think that we should
offer both, perhaps alternating between professional and academic. However, each has some issues related to it.
Good
teaching is difficult to judge in many situations and particularly difficult to
judge when one needs to compare teachers across cultures. Further, in some countries or cultures the
type of innovative teaching that many of us advocate is difficult and may be
impossible for young teachers. Fro
example, in many places the government controls curriculum. Young teachers are
not likely to break away from the curriculum.
The control can sometimes be strict and old fashioned, but teachers can
be punished for being innovative. Thus, many
parts of the world could be eliminated from consideration.
Another
issue is simply the selection of a single teacher from the entire world. To be fair we would need to broadly solicit
nominations. Then we would have a major
task selecting a final group of candidates.
Because teaching – good or bad – is context dependent, we would need to
establish some standards that could apply broadly but yet be specific enough to
enable us to make some choices.
Defining good teaching is difficult at the local level and seems
overwhelming when considering many countries and cultures.
At the
University level many young faculty would be left out because they need to
concentrate on stabling their research program.
Only when research is firmly established (usually after 8-10 years) do
they have time to focus on teaching.
For a
professional award, some of the criteria seem to be a little clearer. In this case research in physics education
has some standards although these are not clearly stated anywhere. For an award of this nature we would need to
establish some measurable and observable characteristics which would lead us to
conclude that the young person was truly outstanding.
Some
members expressed a desire to reward professional leadership. However, this type of leadership seldom is
evident within 8 years of receiving a PhD.
In general,
those who had served on national selection committees for these types of awards
expressed some concern about the procedure.
It is very difficult to distinguish candidates all of whom are rather
good. So, the general approach is to
rely mostly on publication record.
A concern
about the nature of physics education research was also expressed. Unlike other areas of physics a young
researcher is not likely to have a single break through which will quickly
change the way a large number of people look at teaching. Because of the context dependence and the
general nature of teaching, changes move slowly through the community and must
be verified in many different situation before they can be generalized. Thus, young researchers may well make
important contributions within the first 8 years, but the value of the effort
may not be known for many years later.
For both
academic and professional awards, we would need to establish criteria and
standards. Ian Johnston suggested that
we complete a concrete exercise as a first step toward this definition. Each of us could select someone who is
deserving of the award and distribute his/her CV. We could abstract the criteria from those
CVs.
We also had
some discussion about defining “young.”
However, the IUPAP criterion is up to 8 years beyond earning a PhD.
A point of
general agreement is that the IUPAP statement that time for “maternity leave”
should not be included in the 8 years is good.
However, it is too narrow. We
would hope that some of our cultures will enable young men to take family leave
as well as young women.
Several
alternatives to the Young Scientist Awards were mentioned. At this time we would need to ask IUPAP for
permission to give such awards. We need
first to respond to IUPAP about the Young Scientist Award before pursuing other
options.
“Connecting
Research in Physics Education with Teacher Education”
At the
meeting we discussed the status of the chapters and made suggestions for
possible authors. Subsequently Elena
contacted several of the authors and received commitments from them. Below is the Table of Contents taken from her
12 September e-mail.
I think that it is not necessary to record all of our suggestions here.
Connecting Research in Physics Education with Teachers
Education"
draft of table of contents (updated, September 2006)
Section A Introduction (reasons for Vol. 2 and relations with Vol. 1)
(Matilde + Elena)
Section B About Physics
B1 The structure of physics Knowledge (Jon Ogborn,
completed)
B2 The Language of Physics (specific attention to Mathematics) (M.
Pietrocola)
B3 Physics in an interdisciplinary framework (S. Pak)
B4 Physics, technology, environment and development (D. Gil Perez, in
progress)
Section C About learning (or Physics Learning)
C1 Update on learning model and conceptual understanding (L. Viennot,
contacted)
C2 The development of skills and values (V. Talysayon)
C3 The image of science of students and teachers
C4 Learning form International Competitions (G. Tibell)
Section D About Teaching (or Physics Teaching)
D1 Communications skills for teaching (A. M. Pessoa,
contacted)
D2 History of Physics as a tool for teaching (I. Galili)
D3 What physics should we teach?
D4 Pedagogical content knowledge versus content knowledge (D. Grayson)
Section E Technologies for learning and teaching
E1 The aims and strategies of laboratory work
E2 The didactical uses of ICT- based approaches and tools (R. Thornton)
Section F Commented Bibliography
Pratibha
reported that funds are available to meet every year. Our budget is very high compared to other
commissions. We have a rolling budget of
$3000 over a 3-year period. However, we
have received $4000 in past two years.
Judy Franz provided $2000 for this meeting. $3000 is budgeted for news letter.
Elena noted
that the cost of travel to Commission meetings is very expensive. She asked it
the conference organization could help by providing some funds. Mauricio suggested that sometime national
councils, such as the British Council; may provide funds: Elena asked that we just
remind the local organizers. Diane
suggested that Commission members could be plenary speakers.
Elena
suggested that we write a letter to organizers of future conferences about
specific sessions related to gender issues.
Dean agreed to write a letter and include both gender issues and
participation of students.
Pratibha
reiterated that IUPAP treats us well
We maintain
close contacts with UNESCO. Several of our members are involved in
dissemination of the UNESCO produced ALOP materials. Minella Alarcon works closely with ICPE on a variety of common
interests.
Elena is a
member Education Division of the European Physical Society which will be meeting
next week-at GIREP. However, the
Education Division has no money
Pratibha
suggested that we seek endorsement of scientific bodies.
We need to
increase ties with the Arabian Physics Education Network (AraPEN)
and the Collaboration of Physical Societies of Latin American.
The Medal
for 2006 was presented at the
We need to
invite nominations from a broader segment of the physics education community
than we have at the present. We will
post a nomination form on Web and include an article in the newsletter. Commission Members are encouraged to both
nominate and solicit nominations from others. The deadline is November.
Laksham Dissanyake will continue as an Associate Member in his role
as President of ASPEN.
Ian Johnston, new Newsletter Editor, will
replace Vivien Talisayon.
Euduardo Molto-(
Other
underrepresented geographical areas are
Minella Alarcon (UNESCO) will continue as an ex officio member.
Pratibha
suggested a webpage on how to organize conferences.
Takatoshi
wanted to have recommendations for what should happen after the conference; didn't
have time.
It was
suggested that we collect recommendations of back conferences Everyone agreed that this would be a good idea, but I have
no record that anyone agreed to take on the task.
Dean
reported on the PhysWiki Development – See http://web.phys.ksu.edu/physiki/. This effort is an outcome from WCPSD. However, the participation by WCPSD attendees
or others has been essentially zero.
Dean agreed to write a short article for the next news letter in an
attempt to increase interest and participation.
Meeting
adjourned mid-afternoon
Submitted
by Dean Zollman, ICPE Secretary
Leda María Roldán Santamaría
WWW = http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/varios/ixconfenfingle.htm
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OF CONFERENCE |
IX Interamerican
Conference Physics Education |
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2006/07/03-07/07 |
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Leda María Roldán Santamaría |
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(506)308-3598 |
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207-5382 |
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lroldan@ice.co.cr |
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http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/varios/ixconfenfisica.htm |
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Attendees
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99 |
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Women
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41 |
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Women
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4. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (OPTIONAL)
The IX Inter-American Conference on Physics Education
(IX IACPE) was held at the Universidad de Costa Rica,
The IX IACPE was endorsed by the Latinamerican
Center of Physics (CLAF), the International
Commission of Physics Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied
Physics (ICPE/IUPAP) and the Ministry Science and Technology of Costa Rica.
About 100 delegates from 14 countries attended the IX IACPE, with 22 of these
delegates coming from
Contrary to Inter-American Conferences past
experiences, funds were made available to the Costa Rican Organizing Committee
of the IX IACPE one month in advance of the Conference. This timely funding
made it possible for us to efficiently organize the even. We are pleased to
note that there was a vast improvement in the communications quality between
the Organizing Committee and the sponsoring.
Reported
by Takatoshi Murata
Chair of
Steering Committee
Scale of
the Conference
Number of
Participants: 434
Number of
Countries: 25
Japan 319 China 20 Korea 18 Pakistan
13 India 10
US 9
Outline of
the Conference
The International Conference on Physics Education 2006 was
held from August 13 to 17 at National Olympic Memorial Youth Center
in
The program
structure of the conference is as follows:
Subjects of
sessions:
Curriculum, Teacher training, Teaching process, Teaching
materials, Popularization, and Others
Special lecture by Dr. Akira Tonomura of
Hitachi Ltd.
8 plenary talks by leading scholars in the field.
Nearly 15
invited papers selected from submitted abstracts.
11 oral
sessions, each including 1 or 2 invited talks
Poster sessions in 3 rooms.
5 Workshops
of each subject
Teachers’
session
Demonstration
by Japanese teachers
About 380 abstracts were submitted excluding those of
plenary talks. All the abstracts except
plenary lectures were refereed by the members of program committee. Papers for oral presentations were selected
independent of author’s preference in the abstract submission form.
One of the
program committee’s policies of the selection of oral presentations is to
homogenize the presenter’s countries, and minimize Japanese presentations. The number of papers assigned as poster
presentation was 106.
The proceedings will be published in
CD-ROM form as a special issue of the Journal of the Japan Physics Education
Society. The deadline of the paper is
set at the end of September, and the proceedings will be published (we hope) by
the end of this year.
Budget
status (temporary)
Total
budget: approximately 24M JPY (~ 207k USD)
Support of organizers
The Physics Education of
IUPAP 11,000 USD (5,000 USD for the support to participants
from developing countries)
British Council
Sponsors
Commemorative Organization for the
Foundation for Promotion of Material Science and Technology
of
Several private companies
The main
income is the participation fee (28,000 JPY for early registration, 33,000 JPY
for others.)
We tried to
support extensively participants from developing countries as well as teachers
and students (including domestic people.)
Reward and
support for plenary speakers were minimum.
No waiving
of fee and lodging for domestic committee members.
From: Zollman, Dean
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:45 AM
To: 'Khalid Berrada'
Cc: Pratibha Jolly
Subject: ICPE Conference in 2007 in Marrakech
Dear Mr. Berrada,
Thank you for agreeing to
host an International Conference on Physics Education in 2007. As you know,
the Commission discussed your proposal for the conference during our recent
meeting in
Commission members also
discussed the content which you have proposed for the conference. In
general the members thought that the different topics were appropriate for a
conference which will focus on “Building Careers with Physics.” We expect
that you will attract many interesting and excited talks and posters.
I was asked by Commission
members to bring three issues to your attention.
First, a major goal of IUPAP
is to increase the number of women with careers in physics. As a
Commission of IUPAP we are committed to this goal. The topics in your
conference may attract some papers and posters related to girls and women in
physics. However, we would like to assure that this topic receives significant
attention. Thus, we ask that you add “Women and Girls in Physics” as a
specific topic and have at least one session that is devoted to that topic.
Second, IUPAP has asked our
Commission to work directly with students whenever possible. We hope that
you will be able to include student participation in at least one part of your
conference. For example, at the
Third, some members of the
Commission have difficulty obtaining funds to attend an International
conference in a distant location every year. As you are thinking about
invited and plenary speakers, please include members of the Commission in your
consideration. If any of them might be appropriate, it could be helpful
financially if they can be invited as plenary lecturers.
Again, thank you for the
effort that is needed to host this Conference. I look forward to meeting
you in Marrakech next year. In the meantime, if you have any questions,
please contact me at any time.
Dean Zollman
Secretary
International Commission for
Physics Education
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I. Introduction
This network is constituted by working groups on
Physics Education that exist in different countries of the region. The creation
of LAPEN has been inspired and warranted by the members of the International
Commission on Physics Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied
Physics. LAPEN was
constituted in the International Meeting on Teaching Physics and Professor
Training (RIEFP 2005) which was celebrated in
LAPEN has a Coordinator Committee integrated by
a President, a Vice-president and an Executive Secretary and the coordinators
of the network in the different countries where the working groups decide take
part of LAPEN. The functions of these responsibilities are distributed by the
members of the Coordinator Committee. The persons elected in the constitution
meeting for the mentioned responsibilities during 2006-2009 were:
President: Dr. Mauricio
Pietrocola. Sao Paulo State University, Brazil.
Vice-president: Dr. Eduardo
Molto Gil. Pedagogical University
“Enrique Jose Varona”,
Executive Secretary: Dr. Cesar Eduardo Mora Ley. National Polytechnical
Institute,
II. About the identification
of the network.
2.1 LAPEN is identified by the abbreviation in
initials of its name in English.
III. General goals.
3.1 Contributing to the improvement of Physics
Education and the teachers of this subject in the different educational levels.
3.2 Divulging the results of physical education
research and in advance experiences, scientific meetings and other important events in Physical
Education.
3.3 Promoting the exchange with other networks,
working groups and scientific society related to Physical Education.
3.4 Contributing to the organization of working
groups in LAPEN in order to integrate different activities about Physics
Education in the region.
IV. Members of LAPEN
4.1 Any working group on Physics Education in
Latin-American region which is interested in its goals can belong to LAPEN.
4.2 A Physical Education Working Group that want to belong to LAPEN must do the following:
4.2.1 The responsible of the working group
should contact with a member of LAPEN coordinator committee and expose to him
the desire of participate in the network. Also, the following aspects should be
sent:
4.2.1.1 Institution or organization which the working
group belong.
4.2.1.2 Name, surname, academic or scientific
grade, electronic
and, postal address of the head of the working group, and his curriculum in no
more than 250 words.
4.2.1.3 Main working aspects of the group..
4.2.1.4
4.2.1.5 WEB site, in the case that working group
has.
4.3 The Coordinator Committee will send a
notification with the acceptation of the working group in LAPEN.
4.4 The working groups of LAPEN in each country
should be organized in chapters with the name of the country. Each chapter
should have a coordinator who represent it..
V. Duties and rights of the
member groups of LAPEN
5.1 The member groups of LAPEN will be
represented by its responsible person. If the groups are organized in a
national chapter, they will be represented by the coordinator of this chapter.
5.2 The member groups of LAPEN should keep
actualized the information about the group.
5.3 The member groups of LAPEN will receive all
kind of information in relation to LAPEN.
5.4 The member groups of LAPEN should find
support for project, celebration of meetings and so on.
5.5 The member groups of LAPEN should divulge
the information that they receive from LAPEN in its countries..
5.6 The member groups of LAPEN should
communicate to the Coordinator Committee of LAPEN when they decide to let it.
5.7 The papers of the member groups of LAPEN
will have priority in order to be publish in the
review and other publish of LAPEN.
VI. The different direction
organs of LAPEN are:
6.1 The coordinator committee integer by: the
president, the vice-president and he executive
secretary and the coordinators of LAPEN in each countries. .
6.2 The general assembly constituted by the
representing of the member groups and the Coordinator Committee.
VIII. Generals
7.1 LAPEN works generally through:
7.1.1 Meetings (congress, workshops, symposiums,
seminars, training schools and courses and so on.)
7.1.2 The publication of an on-line review.
7.1.3 Its WEB site.
7.2 LAPEN should meet its general assembly each
three years.
7.3 LAPEN will give special
distinctions to Physics professors with
a relevant work in Physics education in Latin-American region.
VIII. Electronic address of
the regional
coordinators of LAPEN.
8.1
President: Dr. Mauricio Pietrocola: mpietro@usp.br
8.2
Vice-president: Dr. Eduardo Moltó Gil: Iacpe@fisica.uh.cu,
emolto@info.isctn.edu.cu
8.3
Executive Secretary: Dr. César Eduardo Mora Ley: cmoral@ipn.mx,
ceml36@hotmail.com
Jon Michael
Ogborn, Professor Emeritus of the
After
studying Natural Sciences at the
In 1971 Jon
moved to
In a long
and distinguished career, Jon Ogborn has been a
participant, often a leader, in many educational research projects, and has
guided many students to the successful completion of their doctoral studies. He
has worked on students’ conceptions, computer modelling,
data analysis and images in science education. The teaching
of energy and thermodynamics have been particular interests of his. Such
is the extent to which he has gained the respect and trust of those who have
worked with him, that he was the natural choice to lead the Advancing Physics project funded by the
UK Institute of Physics in 1997. This very large and complex project involved
another radically new approach to the teaching of Advanced Level Physics, and
resulted in a course that is now followed by about 25% of all the students who
progress to that level. Jon’s ability to inspire confidence and generate
enthusiasm amongst classroom teachers was vital to the success of that project.
At the
international level, Jon Ogborn is well known for his
involvement with GIREP and ESERA, and for his for his
work with George Marx on the Danube Seminars on Physics Education. He has
lectured in more than 25 countries, encouraging the educators of many nations
with his helpful and supportive attitude and broad cultural view. He has been
involved in EU research projects, and has advised the EU on research grants. He
also spent six years as a member of ICPE, during which time his many activities
included editing the second edition of their publication Physics Now.
Jon Ogborn already holds the Bragg Medal of the UK Institute of
Physics, and is both a Medallist and an Honorary
Member of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society,