Primary teacher education

The students of Scienze della formazione primaria, although mostly formed to pedagogy, will have to teach also physics during their work. It is therefore necessary to provide them the fundaments of physics. The level required is intermediate, comparable to high school, but on a selected subsample of topics, easier from the didactical point of view. It is though equally important that future teachers are given the tools to teach physics: first, the enthusiasm for physics processes and their experimental investigation; next the ability to implement simple experiments that can be realised even in absence of a laboratory and in shortness of resources. Rather than the experiment that we will be able to show them, it is important that the future teachers will acquire the skill to learn new ones, knowing where and how to look for them and with the physics fundamentals to understand and explain them.