Interactive Notebook: Arts-Based Approach to Physics Instruction

• In Event: Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Pedagogical Processes and Possibilities Across Diverse Contexts Through Arts-Based Educational Research

Abstract

The paper presents the role of arts-based educational research (ABER) as a paradigm to explore in-depth experiences of a teacher with interactive notebooks to improve physics instruction. It advocates for Interactive notebook as an arts-based technique to teach physics to students of varying interests and abilities. The paper also provides justification for ABER as the analytical tool and the way to represent findings. The first section of the paper explains the theoretical and the substantial frameworks. The section that follows describes why and how arts-based educational research (poetry and sculpting) was used to analyze and represent data. The third part focuses on findings and their implications for present day science education.

Author

• Vani Jaladanki, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi