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ERIC Number: EJ485481
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0926-7220
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A Historical Analysis of Electric Currents in Textbooks: A Century of Influence on Physics Education.
Stocklmayer, Susan; Treagust, David
Science and Education, v3 n2 p131-54 Oct 1994
Analyzes the presentations of electric current in physics textbooks. Concludes that from 1891 to 1991 most textbooks used a fluid model, which predated Faraday, for explaining direct-current circuits. (PR)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Electric Circuits, High Schools, Higher Education, Physics, Science Education, Science Education History, Science History, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Textbooks
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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