1st Edition

Teaching Introductory Physics to Visually Impaired Learners

162 Pages 24 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

162 Pages 24 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

162 Pages 24 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Following global inclusion policies and initiatives, more students with visual impairments are attending regular education in inclusive schools. Universities also increasingly accept students with visual impairments in the most varied courses, including engineering and physics. However, teachers do not always have experience with teaching this specific audience. Teaching Introductory Physics to... Read more

Chapter 1 - Visual Impairment

Chapter 2 - What is Inclusion?

Chapter 3 - Current Advances in Physics Education for Students with Visual Impairments

Chapter 4 - Teaching Mechanics

Chapter 5 - Teaching Waves

Chapter 6 - Teaching Electrodynamics

Chapter 7 - Teaching Optics

Chapter 8 - Teaching Modern Physics

Biography

Antônio Carlos Fontes dos Santos is a Full Professor in the Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Physics, Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He performs research on ion-atom collisions, multiple ionization, target ionization, and mass spectrometry.

Marcio Velloso da Silveira has a postdoctoral degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has a Degree in Physics Teaching from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1997), Specialization in Science and Biology Teaching from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2016), Professional Master's Degree in Physics Teaching from UFRJ (2016), and a PhD in Teaching and History of Mathematics and Physics from UFRJ (2021).