Student Attitudes, Student Anxieties, and How to Address Them - A Handbook for Science Teachers

This book is based on a commitment to teaching science to everybody. What may work for training professional scientists does not work for general science education. Students bring to the classrooms preconceived attitudes, as well as the emotional baggage called "science anxiety." Students may regard science as cold, unfriendly, and even inherently hostile and biased against women. This book has been designed to deal with each of these issues and results from research in both Denmark and the United States.

About the author

Helge Kastrup is an astrophysicist and mathematician from the University of Copenhagen. He has taught physics, math and science at levels from ten-year olds to masters students at various Danish schools, universities, teachers' seminary and at the European School Brussels. He has written a number of textbooks and articles on science and pedagogy. His main area of research is science anxiety and pedagogy, in collaboration with Jeffry Mallow and other professors from Loyola Chicago. He is an amateur musician and tennis player.

Product details

• Authors: Helge Kastrup, Jeffry V. Mallow
• Publisher: Iop Concise Physics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2016
• EAN: 9781681742649
• ISBN: 978-1-68174-264-9
• No. of pages: 90
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 188 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works