In his PhysLrnR post of 23 Jan 2006 titled "Piaget & Physics
Education," Texas John Clement (2006) wrote [bracketed by lines
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I would call attention to the latest Physics Teacher which has an
article . . . . [Maier & Marek (2006). . . .. about the learning
cycle and uses some Piagetian ideas. It also references some of the
articles that I have posted as being significant. However it does
not delve into the idea of cognitive enhancement which is what. . .
[Bob Fuller's]. . . ADAPT. . .
.[<http://physics.unl.edu/~rpeg/ADAPT.html>]. . . . was designed to
do.
It seems that we are coming full cycle, and perhaps this time more can be
accomplished in a permanent fashion. Hopefully we will not be reinventing
the flat tire as Hake has so often claimed is happening.
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Regarding the last sentence, I'm a propagator but NOT the originator
of the "reinventing the flat tire" analogy - that honor goes to Lee
Schulman, now President of the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching <http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/>.
Typing "flat and tire" (without the quotes) into the "search for"
slot of the powerful but seldom used PhysLrnR search engine
<http://listserv.boisestate.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=physlrnr&X=-> yields 20
hits as of 26 Jan 2006 08:50:00-0800, 17 of them due to Hake.
My most recent PhysLrnR mention of "reinventing the flat tire" is in
"Re: quality of journal editing" Hake (2005). Therein I wrote:
"Unfortunately . . . . some education specialists seem to be unaware
of the importance of building a 'community map'. . . [Redish (1999)].
. . Paraphrasing Lee Schulman, as quoted by the late Arnold Arons
(1986): "It seems that in education, the wheel (more usually the flat
tire) must be reinvented every few decades."
For a sampling of the *first-hand* wit and wisdom of Arons see my
suppressed "The Arons Advocated Method" [Hake (2004)].
"All who teach are obliged to think about how they teach,
as well as the content of what they teach. The stakes are
too high for us tolerate anything less."
Lee Schulman
REFERENCES
Arons, A.B. 1986. "Conceptual Difficulties in Science" in
Undergraduate Education in Chemistry and Physics, Proceedings of the
Chicago Conferences on Liberal Education," No. 1, M.R. Rice. ed.
(Univ. of Chicago), p. 50.
Clement, J.M. 2006 "Piaget & Physics Education," PhysLrnR post of
23 Jan 2006 20:05:34-0600; online at
<http://listserv.boisestate.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0601&L=physlrnr&F=&S=&X=6101455BA922422457&Y=rrhake%40earthlink.net&P=4957>.
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