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GIREP - Research Group on Physics Teaching
International ResearchGroup on Physics TeachingInternationalerArbeitskreis zur Förderung des PhysikunterrichtesThis is a GIREP home page that was initialised together withthe conference home page New Ways of Teaching Physics. Wewould like to maintain the permanent GIREP home page withinformation about GIREP members, the links to their home pages,etc. A word from the PresidentList of members (username and password required) A Brief History of GIREPStatutes of GIREPGIREP newsletters from 1974 (username and passwordrequired)GIREP committee Fees Download application form (ZIP compressed) ConferencesConference 1995 - Teaching thescience of condensed matter and new materials Conference1996 - New ways of teaching physicsConference 1998 - Hands-On Experiments in PhysicsEducation Conference2000 - Physics Teacher Education Beyond 2000Conference 2002- Physics in new fields and modern applications, Lund/Sweden,August 5 - 9, 2002Conference 2004 -Teaching and Learning Physics in New Contexts, 19- 23July 2004, Universityof Ostrava, Czech Republic Conference 2006 -Modelling in Physics and Physics Education, 20- 25August 2006, AMSTEL institute, Faculty of Science, Universityof Amsterdam, Netherlands GIREP / EPEC Conference 2007 -Frontiers of Physics Education, 26 - 31 August 2007, Opatija, CroatiaSeminarsSeminar2001 - Developing Formal Thinking in Physics, University ofUdine, Italy, 2-6 September 2001Seminar 2003- QUALITY DEVELOPMENT IN TEACHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING, 1-6September 2003 in Udine, Italy.Seminar 2005- INFORMAL LEARNING AND PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS, 5-9September 2005 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.Events World year of Physics The current home page is maintained by Gorazd Planinsic, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,Ljubljana, SLOVENIA ,e-mail: gorazd.planinsic@fiz.uni-lj.siInformation about GIREP was provided by SetaOblak, Board of Education, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA. E-mail: Seta.Oblak@guest.arnes.siA word from the PresidentDear GIREP members,As your new President, elected at the 1998 GIREP conference inDuisburg, I would like to address all members and to point outsome of the interesting and challenging tasks to be tackled inthe future.GIREP has an outstanding tradition in international cooperationin the field of teaching modern physics. It is a great honour andpleasure to work for this highly esteemed community of physicsteachers from all over the world, especially now as we make themove into a new millennium. As the past GIREP President KarlLuchner put it, members of GIREP are not only physics teachers.Moreover, they are highly idealistic persons, combining expertisein very different fields. A high degree of competence in the subject area of physics is oneimportant prerequisite, being a great challenge in itself in viewof the rapid and still accelerating pace of scientific andtechnological development. In addition to the progress withinphysics and to the important developments linking physics withinter- and transdisciplinary areas, we have to keep track of thebroader contexts, into which our science is embedded and fromwhich it emerges. In my view, this requires an intelligentbalance between tradition and innovation. Physics as a mentalchallenge is driven by the conviction, that the universe isintelligible by the human mind. The search for unifyingprinciples has been the grand theme, conserved throughout allchanges during the development of modern science. As part of ourcultural heritage, we have to convey the "big ideas" ofour discipline and make them accessible and sensible to ourstudents in a meaningful and authentic way, which meets theirexpectations and needs. Excellence on the physics side has to be complemented withexcellence in terms of pedagogy. Switching the focus from physicsto teaching, we have to acknowledge, that during the last decadessignificant progress has been achieved in research on teachingand learning processes and on using new technologies for teachingand learning. However, a great deal of this valuable knowledgehas not been transformed to practical implementations on a broadscale. We still have to try hard to put together threads fromdifferent directions, matching the physics oriented view and thelearner oriented view on various levels. Science in general and especially physics has been under severepressure in the last decades, suffering from declining students'interest and enrolments. We are faced with the paradoxicalsituation of living in a society based on science and technology,the base of which is seemingly thinned out and the gap betweenthe notorious "two cultures" is even increasing. Therole of scientific literacy and the public understanding ofscience have become political issues in view of a globally linkedsociety where knowledge plays an eminent role. As a reaction,different countries have launched programs to promote the qualityof science education. Being involved in a national effort toimprove the efficiency of mathematics and science educationmyself, I consider it one of the aims of future GIREP conferencesto share our experiences from these different efforts and to makethem accessible to the community. At present, an interesting development can be observed on theintern-ational level. Formerly, knowledge used to be transferredfrom the developed countries to the less developed ones. Thissituation is about to change: nations, which were newcomers onegeneration ago, have made a superb progress and have reached astage, where in turn the developed countries can profit fromtheir approaches and their experience.Let us take this as an indicator for the GIREP philosophy thatinternational cooperation and cross-cultural exchange combinedwith idealism and enthusiasm will pay in the long run and willhelp to further the image of physics both as an intellectualendeavour and as one of the central pillars of our modernculture. Manfred Euler Index A Brief History of GIREPIn the years 1960-64 OECE (that later became OECD) arranged aseries of international meetings to encourage the renewal ofPhysics teaching. The meetings proved to be a valuable source ofinspiration for the participants. However, from 1964 OECDconcentrated on other fields and stopped supporting meetings onphysics education. - A number of persons who had attended thepreviuous meetings, led by prof. W. Knecht, Switzerland, believedthat the series of international meetings on teaching physics inschools should continue. To this end they formed an internationalworking group: GIREP was founded 15. March 1966 with Prof. Knechtas President. - At the beginning the number of members of GIREPwas quite small (a few tens), but it soon grew to over 100 andnow, since many years, it is quite stable at about 250. - Verysoon GIREP began to organize international meetings, findingsponsorship from Universities, Ministries of Education, UNESCO;ESA and many other national and international organizations. Oneway the Ministries of Education sponsor the Meetings is payingfor the attendance of local school teacher. Here is a list ofGIREP meetings from the very beginning: 1. Jan. 1967 (Lausanne, Switzerland): incollaboration with the International Commission of MathematicsTeaching, preliminary informal meeting on the co-ordination ofmathematics and physics teaching at the secondary school. 2. 30. Oct.-5.Nov. 1968 (Malvern, UK): Study anddiscussion of the Nuffield Physics. 3. 30. July-5.Aug. 1969 (Copenhagen, Denmark):Energy in the lower secondary school, Quantum mechanics andRelativity in the higher secondary school. 4. 16.-18. Mar. 1972 (Kiel, Germany): jointGIREP-UNESCO Meeting on the implementation of curricula inscience education with sepcial regard to physics teaching. 5. 14.-20. Oct. 1973 (Venezia, Italy):"Electricity, magnetism and mechanics in the secondaryschool". 6. 6.-10. Sept. 1976 (Montpellier, France): Twomain topics: "First steps in teaching physics at thebeginning of secondary school", and "Probability andStatistics in physics teaching". 7. 14.-21. July 1978 (Oxford, UK): jointICPE-GIREP Meeting on "The role of the Laboratory in PhysicsTeaching". 8. 19.-24. Aug. 1979 (Rehovot, Israel): twotopics: "Teaching Waves and Oscillations" and"Current Problems in Physics Teaching". 9. 6.-12. Sept. 1981 (Balatonfüred, Hungary):"Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Power". 10. 20.-25. Aug. 1984 (Zeist, Holand): "Themany faces of teaching and learning mechanics". 11. 18.-23. Aug. 1986 (Elsinore, Denmark):"COSMOS - an Educational Challenge". 12. 7.-13. Sept. 1989 (Balatonfüred, Hungary):"Energy Alternatives - Risk Education". 13. 19.-24. Aug. 1991 (Torun, Poland):"Teaching about Reference Frames - from Copernicus toEinstein". 14. 16.-21. July 1993 (Braga, Portugal): "Lightand Information". 15. 24.-30.Aug. 1995 (Udine, Italy): jointICPE-GIREP Meeting on "Teaching the science of condensedmatters and new materials". 16. 21.-27.Aug. 1996 (Ljubljana, Slovenia): jointICPE-GIREP Meeting on" New Ways of Teaching Physics". 17. 23.-28. Aug. 1998 (Duisburg, Germany):"Hands-On experiments in physics education" 18. 27. Aug - 1. Sept. (Barcelona, Spain):"Physics Teacher Education Beyond 2000"Since 1969 all Meetings published Proceedings, that weredistributed to all members. But occasionally Proceedings of otherConferences were also distributed: for example of ICPE Conferenceon Education for Physics Teaching, Trieste 1980; MicroscienceConference on Computers in Science Education, Balaton 1985; ICPETeaching Modern Physics Conference on Condensed Matter, Munich1988; and presently RIO FOLLOWUP - International scienceeducation conference on environmental issues, Eger 1994. The Presidence of GIREP from foundation 1966 was held by 1966 - 1969 W. Knecht (Switzerland) 1969 - 1972 Soren Sikjaer (Denmark) 1972 - 1979 Poul Thomsen (Royal Danish School of EducationalStudies, Copenhagen, Denmark) 1979 - 1984 Arturo Loria (University of Modena, Italy) 1985 - 1991 Paul Black (King's College, London, UK) 1992 - 1995 George Marx (R. Eoetvoes University, Budapest,Hungary) 1995 - 1999 Karl Luchner (University of Munich, Germany) 1999 - 2002 Manfred Euler (Department of Physics Education, IPN(Institute for Science Education), University of Kiel, Germany)Index STATUTES OF GIREPAdopted 1972, revised 1989 and 1995 The Statutes were adopted in Kiel, Germany on March 17, 1972,then revised by the General Assembly on September 12, 1989 inBalatonfüred, Hungary (articles 2 and 11) and revised again bythe General Assembly on August 29, 1995 in Udine, Italy (article17). Art .1 The International Research Group on Physics Teaching (GIREP) isan international body of physics professors and teachers who wantto cooperate in their work on physics teaching. It enjoys legal status according to the Swiss Common Law. Art. 2 The principal aims and purposes of GIREP are: to use every possible means to promote and encourage every effort made with a view to adapting physics teaching to the present knowledge; to collaborate as closely as possible with any international organisation whose field of activity is connected with that of the Group; to foster friendly contacts between physics teachers and professors above national barriers at all levels of education; to stimulate the exchange of information and team work between its members and to keep them informed of the work of the International Organisations in the field of its activities.Art. 3 The Group is formed of ordinary members, subscribing members andpossibly honorary members. Art. 4 The ordinary members are individuals or groups. The individual members are physics teachers or professors. The groups are societies of physics teachers or professors orbroadly speaking, national or international scientific bodiesinterested in the same field of activity as GIREP. The subscribing members are persons, associations, companies orfirms who accept to support financially the activities of GIREPbut do not participate in its activities. Art.5 It is within the General Assembly(s competence to elect ashonorary member of the Group any person whose especially valuablework in favour of physics teaching or GIREP deserves recognition.The honorary members do not pay any membership fee and enjoy thesame rights as the ordinary members. Art. 6 Membership is granted to any candidate who applies for it to theCommittee and as soon as this application is accepted by theCommittee. The members are not personally responsible for the liabilities ofGIREP. These liabilities are warranted by the credit of theGroup. Art. 7 The different organs of GIREP are: 1) The General Assembly formed of all the active members andthe possible honorary members; 2) The National Sections, each of them being formed of themembers of the General Assembly living in the same country; 3) The Committee; 4) The Commission of Representatives formed by the Committee andthe delegates of the National Sections; 5) The Commission of Auditors. Art. 8 GIREP works mainly through: 1) The working seminar of the Commission of Representatives; 2) The information bulletins draught by the National Sections; 3) The possible international symposiums organised incollaboration with other international institutions. Art. 9 The General Assembly is the highest authority of the Group. It isconsulted by letter as often as necessary. The General Assemblydelegates its authority to the Commission of Representatives whenthe latter sits and for the duration of the session. Art. 10 The Commission of Representatives holds an administrative meetingat the same time as the working seminar organised in turn everytwo years in the various countries represented. It is presidedover by the President of the Committee. It takes decisions at thesimple majority of the participating members. If necessary thevote of the President will help to sway the decision. The programmes of the working seminars are prepared by theCommittee. The Committee convenes the Commission ofRepresentatives. The Chairman of the working seminar is thePresident of the National Section of the host country. Art. 11 The Committee is the executive organ of the Group. Its membersare elected by the General Assembly for four years. They arereelegible. The Committee is formed of the President, twoVice-presidents, the General Secretary and the Treasurer. ThePresident and the Vice-Presidents belong to different countriesand, if possible, to two different linguistic regions. The jointsignatures of the Treasurer and another member of the Committeeinvolve the financial responsibility of the Group. Art. 12 Each National Section is constituted and is financially runaccording to its choice. It elects in particular a President, aSecretary and a Treasurer. Several offices may be held by thesame person. Once a year - at a seminar or by letter - each National Sectionwill submit to the Committee in the form of an "InformationBulletin" a concise report on the activities carried out inthe country in favour of physics teaching. The National Sections represent GIREP before their nationalauthorities and professional associations in their respectivecountries. A standing invitation is extended to the President ofthe Committee to participate in the meetings of the NationalSections. Art. 13 The Commission of Auditors is formed of two members who areelected in the same way and for the same period as the Committee.Two substitutes are elected for the same period. The Auditors donot reside in the same country as the Treasurer and are notmembers of the Committee. The same rule applies to thesubstitutes. Art. 14 GIREP may invite to all or part of the meetings of its variousorgans any person whose collaboration is thought to be valuable.In particular, representatives of the international organisationsare invited to the most important meetings when their field ofactivity is connected with that of GIREP. Art. 15 When decisions are made by letter, the simple majority of theexpressed opinions is required; the documents are kept in theGIREP Records and may be consulted at any time by the members.The decisions made my letter are considered as being made at theheadquarters of GIREP. Art. 16 The yearly accounts of GIREP are kept by the Treasurer. Thefinancial year begins on 1st January. Every year the balancesheet and the report of the auditors are sent to the members whomay return the sheet within 14 days in case of disapproval. Theaccount books are kept with GIREP(s records. Art. 17 In the October each year, those members who have not paid for theprevious two years will be removed from the membership list. Art. 18 The Committee, as well as the General Assembly, may exclude anymember of GIREP for serious offence. Art. 19 The present Statutes may be revised by a 2/3 majority of theGeneral Assembly or of the Commission of Representatives entitledto act on the authority of the General Assembly. Art. 20 The dissolution of the association may be decided under the sameconditions as the revision of the Statutes. In case ofdissolution the credit of GIREP will be given to an internationalassociation, whose activities are in favour of physics orscientific teaching. Index GIREP COMMITTEE President: Manfred Euler, Department of PhysicsEducation, IPN (Institute for Science Education), Olshausenstr.62, 24098 Kiel, Germany (tel 49-431-880-3147, fax –3148,e-mail: euler@ipn.uni-kiel.de)Vice-presidents: Ton Ellermeijer, e-mail: ellermei@science.uva.nlMichele d'Anna, e-mail: danna@lilo.lic.ti-edu.chSecretary: Gorazd Planinsic, University ofLjubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Jadranska 19,SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia (fax: +386 (1) 2517281, e-mail: gorazd.planinsic@fiz.uni-lj.si)Treasurer: Rosa Maria Sperandeo-Mineo, Universita` di PalermoViale delle Scienze (Edificio 18), 90128 PALERMO, Italy(e-mail: sperandeo@difter.unipa.it)Index FEESThe current fee is EURO 20 (+ 1 EURO expenses) for one year.The accounting year runs from January 1 to December 31. Feespaid after September in any year will be credited on thefollowing year, unless the applicant specifies otherwise.The fee can be paid into the following account: Rosa Maria Mineo-Sperandeo MEDIOLANUM BANK-Account N 478971,BIC-code: MEDBITMMIBAN : IT41R0306234210000000478971For Italian members (national transfer):Rosa Maria Mineo-Sperandeo MEDIOLANUM BANK-Account N 478971 [ ABI: 03062, CAB: 34210].At the same time,please send a note (by letter, fax or e-mail) to the Treasurer,confirming how much money you sent and when and for what years.The members shouldpay all bank charges and mailing costs. Please ask your bank forthese costs before transferring money!If you prefer toreduce bank or cheque expenses, you may pay several years fees inadvance.Please do not send cheques (highexpenses!)In cases of real difficulty to arrange payment, please contactthe Secretary or the Treasurer who are ready to advise whetherspecial arrangements can be made.The General Assembly of GIREP members in Udine (August 1995)accepted the following supplementary new article for the GIREPstatutes:Each year in October, those members who have not paid for theprevious two years will be removed from the membership list.Index |
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