Regensburg 2007 – scientific programme

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PV: Plenarvorträge

PV V

PV V: Plenary Talk

Monday, March 26, 2007, 19:00–19:45, H1

Gender Equitable Teaching and Learning in Physics Education — •Monika Bessenrodt-Weberpals — HAW Hamburg, Fakultät DMI, Department Technik

Reflective coeducation in physics is an attempt to abolish gender stereotypes and to replace them with a positive view on female and male identity, respectively. In this approach teaching combines authentic experiences with activating cooperative learning. Topics in modern physics and in everyday life, e.g. environmental or biological examples, inspire female and male students alike to use fundamental physical concepts competently, to devise scientific experiments and models, and to apply their knowledge to everyday situations as well as to technical problems. This context-based learning experience is well adapted to physics students as well as to the needs of a knowledge-based society. Furthermore, investigations prove that a temporary segregation of female and male students can have a positive effect on the women.