Cosmos visualized: Development of a qualitative framework for analyzing representations in cosmology education

• Published in: Physical review. Physics education research Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 013104 - 13137
• Main Authors: Salimpour, Saeed, Tytler, Russell, Eriksson, Urban, Fitzgerald, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: College Park American Physical Society 24.05.2021
• Subjects: Aesthetic Education; Aesthetics; Astronomy; College Students; Complexity; Comprehension; Computer Simulation; Concept Formation; Cosmology; Didactics; Didactics (including General and Subject Didactics); Didaktik; Didaktik (Här ingår: Allmän- och ämnesdidaktik); Education; Educational Research; Educational Sciences; Laboratory Experiments; Light; Logical Thinking; Qualitative analysis; Representations; Samhällsvetenskap; Science Education; Science Experiments; Science Instruction; Scientific Concepts; Scientists; Secondary School Students; Semiotics; Social Sciences; Teaching Methods; Teaching Models; Universe; Utbildningsvetenskap; Visualization

Our aesthetic response to the Universe, and the complexity of concepts through which we understand it, are inherently bound together in how we meaningfully interpret its nature. Over millennia the abstracted and intangible concepts of science have been developed and communicated through a rich array...