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Watching the pendulum swing (continued)
Physics,
is actually
essential;
without it, grants
cannot
be
Such critical
examinations
of a discipline/subject,
rarely
happen
but can
extremely
insightful
won
and be physics
cannot
be when
done. they do. Existing research,
for example, shows how a focus on the way physics knowledge is
structured can help students overcome misconceptions [27] and
Such
critical
examinations
of a discipline/subject,
rarely
explicitly
pointing
out the characteristics
of scientific practices
happen
but can about
be extremely
insightful
when they do.
reduces confusion
how science
works [28].
Existing research, for example, shows how a focus on the
What
do we knowledge
do about is it?
way
physics
structured can help students
If we do nothing
about the issues
then the inequity
of
overcome
misconceptions
[27] raised
and explicitly
pointing
access
high school physics
will be practices
greatly amplified
the
out
the to characteristics
of scientific
reduces as con-
regional, remote and low socioeconomic schools struggle
fusion
about how science works [28].
further in attracting both students and physics-trained teachers,
whereas metropolitan, high socioeconomic and selective schools
will continue
to recruit
relatively it?
healthy numbers of students and
What
do we
do about
trained
teachers.
Exclusion
of
and other
who
If we do nothing about the females
issues raised
then groups,
the ineq-
just