IUPAP Sponsored:

VI Inter-American Conference on Physics Education

30 June - 3 July 1997

Cordoba, Argentina

• New technologies in the classroom
• Updating the physics curriculum at all levels
• Physics education's role in teacher preparation
• History & epistomology of physics education

Dr. Alberto Maiztegui

Casilla De Correo 36

5000 - Cordoba, Argentina

fax: 54-51-229687

email: maiz@famaf.uncor.edu

smf1.fciencias.unam.mx/boletin/Jul-96/varia/argen.html

Creativity in Physics Education

18 - 24 August 1997

Sopron, Hungary

• New Approaches in physics teaching
• Cultures of international science teaching
• Computer and multimedia in physics
• New technology and equipment in experiments
• Workshops on creative computer programming, experiments, & problem solving

Contact:

Dr. George Marx

Dept. of Atomic Physics, Eötvös University

Pushkin 5

Budapest H-1088, Hungary

fax: 36-1-2660206

email: marx@hercules.elte.hu

Other Conferences of Interest:

First European Conference on

Physics Teaching in Engineering

4- 6 June 1997

Copenhagen, Denmark

• What engineers & industry need from physics
• Teaching strategies
• Small/large groups
• Inclusion of modern physics
• Development of learning skills on physics
• Computer-aided teaching

Contact:

Erik Oehlenschlaeger, PTEE 1997

Engineering College of Copenhagen

Lautrupvang 15

DK-2750 Ballerup, Denmark

fax: 45-44-97-22-20

email: eoe@iktmail.cph.ih.dk

http://www.ptee97.cph.ih.dk

Justification & Enrollment Problems in Education
Involving Mathematics or Physics

22-26 August 1997

• The nature & causes of the enrollment problem
• The nature & causes of the justification problem
• Do mathematics & physics have special properties or roles in relation to enrollment and justification problems?

Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

Contact:

Karina Larsen

IMFUFA, Roskilde University

PO Box 260

DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark

tel: +45 4675 7711

fax: +45 4675 5065

email: kl@mmf.ruc.dk

http://mmf.ruc.dk/conf/1an.htm

First Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)

2-6 September 1997

Rome, Italy

• Teacher education
• Experimental activities in science education
• The popularization of science
• Educational methodology
• Teaching/learning processes in science education

Contact:

Mrs. Gisella Pellegrini

Instituto di Psicologia del CNR, Roma

Viale Marx 15

00137 - Roma, Italy

fax: 39-6-824737

email: pellegri@kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it

Project Organization as Form of Study at Universities

14-22 September 1997

The conference will study student project work, concentrating on interdisciplinarity, project organization, & influence on the student. Projects will be looked at from the perspectives of the teacher, the student, epistomology, etc.

Registration fee: 2200DKR, 1000DKR for students

Contact:

Mette Knudsen

Building 01

P.O. Box 260

DK-4000 Roskilde

tel.: +45 46 75 77 11 ext. 2861

fax: +45 46 75 41 12

email: mek@adm.ruc.dk

http://www.ruc.dk/eng/aktuelt/jubikonf.html