Teaching Introductory Physics to Visually Impaired Learners

Teaching Introductory Physics to Visually Impaired Learners provides a gateway to understanding the difficulties encountered by this audience and provides ways for teachers to embrace this challenge.

List of contents

Chapter 1 - Visual Impairment
Chapter 2 - What is Inclusion?
Chapter 3 - Current Advances in Physics Education for Students with Visual Impairments
Chapter 4 - Teaching Mechanics to the Visually Impaired
Chapter 5 - Teaching Waves to the Visually Impaired
Chapter 6 - Teaching Electrodynamic
Chapter 7 - Teaching Optics to the Visually Impaired
Chapter 8 - Teaching Modern Physics to the Visually Impaired

About the author

Antônio Carlos Fontes dos Santos is a Full Professor in the Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Physics, Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He performs research on ion-atom collisions, multiple ionization, target ionization, mass spectrometry.
Marcio Velloso Silveira has a posdoctoral degree at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has a Degree in Physics Teaching from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1997), Specialization in Science and Biology Teaching from UFRJ (2016), Professional Master's Degree in Physics Teaching from UFRJ (2016) and a PhD in Teaching and History of Mathematics and Physics from UFRJ (2021).

Product details

• Authors: Marcio Velloso da Silveira, Marcio Velloso Dos Santos Da Silveira, Antonio Carlos Fontes dos Santos, Antônio Carlos Fontes dos Santos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 10.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032829715
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3282971-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, SCIENCE / Study & Teaching, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Teaching skills & techniques, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Applied physics, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Science & Technology