This is a long
story, starting in early fifties and still continuing.
Sorry, that
I have not yet found the energy to write it down, except for a couple
of fragments.
DFCL
In 1996 I
was offered the opportunity to arrange a complementary education
course for Finnish physics teachers. It became known with the
abbreviation DFCL related to the nature and level of the
course as related to the Finnish terminology of examination system
(Didactical Physics Cum Laude). The duration of the course was about
two years and there were three rounds of it:
* dfcl1 in 1996-97
with about 150 participants,
* dfcl2 in 1998-99 with about 100
participants and
* dfcl3 with some 50 participants.
In the beginning of the
first course an e-mail list dfcl-list was founded for information to
and discussion with the participants. This list is still in function
although the present intensity of the discussions is just a fraction
of that during the course.
Among the latest subjects of discussion was the problem of a stone in water, where actually is its apparent position. As a conclusion of that discussion I made a small calculation: Kivi vedessä. (A stone in water.)
Supervised theses
* For doctors examination
– Aino Vahvaselkä: Direct Analysis of Nuclear Distributional Moments on the Basis of Neutron Diffraction Data. 9/78
– Mikko Kara: Symmetrized Multipole Analysis of Rigid body Distributions. 10/1981
– A number of other theses on crystallographic subjects together with other researchers of the X-ray laboratory group of the Department of Physics.
– Hyvönen Tapio: Fysiikan tietoteoreettiset perusteet fenomenologian ja kielipelien näkökulmasta. 1995
– Lavonen, Jari: Fysiikan opetuksen kokeellisuus ja mittausautomaatio. 1996
– Beatrice Bressan: Educational, cultural and R&D benefit to society resulting from an international scientific centre: CERN. 9/ 2004
– Irma Hannula: Need and possibilities of astronomy teaching in the Finnish comprehensive school
9/2005.
* For licentiate examination
– Lavonen Jari: Tietotekniikan hyödyntäminen kokeellisen lähestymistavan yhteydessä. 1989
– Hämäläinen, Ari: Opetuskäyttöön tarkoitetulle tietokoneavusteiselle mittausjärjestelmälle asetettavat vaatimukset hahmottavan lähestymistavan kannalta. 9.6.1994
– Selin, Seppo: Teknillisen oppilaitoksen fysiikan laboratoriotyöt hahmottavan lähestymistavan näkökulmasta. 15.5.1997
– Ketolainen Pasi: Lähestymistavan vaikutus pyörimislikkkeen käsitteiden oppimisessa. 29.5.1998
– Raija Maria Lautala os. Salonen: Hahmottavan lähestymistavan toimivuus peruskoulun ja lukion aaltoliikeopin opetuksessa. 12/2000
– Veera Kallunki: From electrostatics to the circuits of the pile: Experimentality and models in concept formation. 29.05.2001
– Ilpo Uotinen: Ilmatyynypöydän käyttö lukion fysiikan opetuksessa. 12/2001
– Ilkka Korventausta: Oppimistyylit ja luonnontieteellinen maailmankuva. 11/2002