NDLI: Special Theory of Relativity in South Korean High School Textbooks and New Teaching Guidelines

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Author	Gim, Jinyeong
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	South Korean high school students are being taught Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. In this article, I examine the portrayal of this theory in South Korean high school physics textbooks and discuss an alternative method used to solve the analyzed problems. This examination of how these South Korean textbooks present this theory has revealed two main flaws: First, the textbooks’ contents present historically fallacious backgrounds regarding the origin of this theory because of a blind dependence on popular undergraduate textbooks, which ignore the revolutionary aspects of the theory in physics. And second, the current ingredients of teaching this theory are so simply enumerated and conceptually confused that students are not provided with good opportunities to develop critical capacities for evaluating scientific theories. Reviewing textbooks used in South Korea, I will, first, claim that the history of science contributes to understand not merely the origins but also two principles of this theory. Second, in addition to this claim, I argue that we should distinguish not only hypotheses from principles but also phenomena from theoretical consequences and evidence. Finally, I suggest an alternative way in which theory testing occurs in the process of evaluation among competitive theories on the basis of data, not in the simple relation between a hypothesis and evidence.
Starting Page	575
Ending Page	610
Page Count	36
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09267220
Journal	Science & Education
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	5-6
e-ISSN	15731901
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-07-11
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Science Education Philosophy of Science History
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education

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