Changing Student Ways of Knowing
What should our students learn in a physics class?

Edward F. Redish is the author of Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite and co-author of Understanding Physics. He is a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland where he has taught for over 30 years. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from MIT and was an active researcher in that field for 25 years. Since 1991, he has devoted his research effort to physics education and has established a research group at Maryland. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship of teaching and learning including the 1998 Millikan award from the AAPT.

"Effective student learning comes from 'brains-on' activities---those times when students are thinking hard and struggling to make sense of what they are learning. Effective instruction happens when teachers create environments in which students are encouraged and helped to engage in those kinds of activities."