Unpacking physics representations: Towards an appreciation of disciplinary affordance

This theoretical article problematizes the access to disciplinary knowledge that different physics representations have the possibility to provide; that is, their disciplinary affordances. It is argued that historically such access has become increasingly constrained for students as physics represen...

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Main Authors: Tobias Fredlund, Cedric Linder, John Airey, Anne Linder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-12-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.10.020129