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Re: physics teacher education 1880-1900



At 04:46 PM 24/02/99 -0500, you wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:25:22 -0500 Wilson Gonzalez-espada
<wge@ARCHES.UGA.EDU> writes:

I am doing some research in physics teacher education in America
1880-1900 and its impact and relevance on the contemporary training
of physics teachers.

Today, physics teacher training consists of learning physics followed
by some general
courses in "education" and methods of teaching followed by some student
teaching.
Has it ever been different in the past? Will it ever be different in the
future?

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where few if any new physics teachers are being trained now. Warm bodies
or pre-med dropouts are being required to teach physics classes if they
wish to retain their jobs)


Herb,

Are you absolutely sure about the "learning physics" part of it?

Glenn