The Arons-advocated method

摘要: Background: Arnold Arons, along with Robert Karplus, can fairly be called one of the founding fathers of US Physics Education Research, a field that has emerged as a viable sub-discipline of physics in the last two decades. The instructional methods advocated by Arons were influenced by the work of Socrates, Plato, Montaigne, Rousseau, Dewey, Whitehead, and Piaget, but are primarily derived from Arons’ epic half-century effort to improve introductory science teaching by shuting up and listening carefully to students’ responses to probing Socratic questions on physics, science, and ways of thinking.