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 Professor Friedrich Herrmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: On the verdict of the German Physical Society against the Karlsruhe Physics Course – a chronicle of events  The Karlsruhe Physics Course
(KPC) is a novel approach to the teaching of physics
developed more than 30 years ago. The KPC textbooks have
since been used in a certain, slightly increasing number
of German schools. Simultaneously, ideas of the KPC have
found their way into the mainstream textbooks. Only
recently, the German Physical Society (DPG) got aware of
the course. In their opinion the KPC  represents a danger to
the teaching of physics. Therefore, the DPG nominated an
expert panel with the assignment of finding scientific
errors in the KPC. The panel believed to have found such
errors. Thereupon the DPG has initiated a campaign with
the objective of eliminating not only the KPC textbooks
from the market but to eradicate any other manifestation
of ideas that might have originated in the KPC work. As a
result of these measures, a discussion of unusual
fierceness arose, first in Germany, but then spreading to
other countries. A chronicle of an eventful year and a
brief evaluation will be given from the perspective of the
author of the course.
torsdag, den 15. oktober 2015, kl. 17.00 |
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