SUMMER COURSE VARENNA - JULY 15-25, 2003

FIRST WEEK

	Tuesday 15	Wednesday 16	Thursday 17	Friday 18	Saturday 19
9.00-10.00	The Varenna Course Jubilee (*)	Redish	Hammer	Levy-Leblond	Pintò
10.00-11.00		Di Sessa	Otero	Viennot	Euler
11.00-11.30		Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11.30-12.30		Levy-Leblond	Viennot	Viennot	Levy-Leblond
16.00-17.00	Redish	Mestre	Euler	Guidoni
17.00-18.00	Black	Vicentini	Ferdinande	Grimellini
18.00-19.00	Sahm	Thornton	(+)	(+)

(*) With intervention of the President of SIF, F. Bassani, and the Honorary President of SIF, R.A. Ricci, and the President of the Accademia dei Lincei, G. Salvini, one italian physicist (Cabibbo o Rubbia), Redish.

SECOND WEEK

	Monday 21	Tuesday 22	Wednesday 23	Thursday 24	Friday 25
9.00-10.00	Redish	Otero	Guidoni	Pintò	Round Table on the research perspectives
10.00-11.00	Black	Hammer	Mestre	Di Sessa
11.00-11.30	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11.30-12.30	Black	Hammer	Mestre	Di Sessa	Pres. SIF
16.00-17.00	Tibell	(+)	Heron	Heron
17.00-18.00	(+)	(+)	(+)	(+)
18.00-19.00

(+) Time available for presentations of participants or group work.

Black P.	UK	A. Reviewing research into classroom formative assessment. B. Research into practice: partnership with teachers. C. Testing systems and testing quality.
Di Sessa A.	USA	Models, concepts, theories: how do we think about student ideas.
Euler M.	Germ.	The role of experiments in the teaching and learning of physics.
Ferdinande H.	Belg.	University physics education in Europe: the activities of the EUPEN Network and “Tuning – phase I and II”.
Guidoni P.	Italy	Re-thinking physics fo teaching research problems and hints.
Hammer D.	USA	Student resources for tangibility and coherence.
Levy Leblond J.M.	France	From epistemology to pedagogy: back and forth
Mestre J.	USA	The dependence of knowledge deployment on context among physics novices.
Otero V.	USA	Cognitive processes and the history of physics: the evolution of knowledge and/or the definition of learning.
Pintò R.	Spain	Labwork activities at the university level.
Redish E.	USA	Introduction to cognitive models and the structure of knowledge. How metacognition and epistemology fit into modern cognitive models.
Vicentini M.	Italy	Thinking physics for teaching: proposals and questions.
Viennot L.	France	Links between common ways of reasoning, content analysis and research on teaching sequences.

Seminari

Grimellini N.	Italy	Teaching physics from a cultural perspective: examples from research in physics education.
Heron P.	USA	Title to be defined.
Sahm J.	Germ.	The role of the ICPE in stimulating research in the field of physics education.
Thornton R.	USA	Uncommon knowledge: students behaviour correlated to conceptual learning.
Tibell G.	Swed.	The activities of EPS in the field of physics education.