CANCELLED. Communities of Practice in Brazil: An Ethnographic Study of Changes to University Physics Instruction
Type:
Colloquium
Date/Time:
2007-03-01 16:00
Location:
Weniger 304
Event speaker:
Dr. Jose Acacio de Barros, Institute for Exact Sciences, Federal University at Juiz de Fora, Brazil and Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
Title:
CANCELLED. Communities of Practice in Brazil: An Ethnographic Study of Changes to University Physics Instruction
Contact:
Abstract
CANCELLED.In this
talk I examine the impact of bringing instructional methods and models
developed in the U.S. to an Introductory Physics course at a Brazilian
university. Using participant observation, interviews, and
questionnaires, we investigated the influence of cultural context on
the effectiveness of teaching. I describe student responses to
instructional approaches that were designed to change their
epistemologies, interactions, and sense of responsibility for learning.
Refreshments will be served half an hour before the start of the colloquium in Weniger 305.