We are looking forward to seeing physics educators, teachers, researchers, and policy makers from around the world at this very first World Conference on Physics Education to be held in Istanbul in July 2012. The conference was initiated by Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Enseignement de la Physique (GIREP) and theInternational Commission on Physics Education (ICPE) – Commission 14 of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). It is being sponsored byGIREP, ICPE and the Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning (MPTL) group and endorsed by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), Latin American Physics Education Network (LAPEN) and the Asian Physics Education Network (AsPEN).
The vision for 2012 World Conference on Physics Education is to follow a global participative process before, during and after the conference. The Conference will be structured to help foster collaborations on physics education research and development which can transcend national boundaries. The goal will be reached through working sessions which will develop actions plans that strengthen the teaching and learning of physics at all levels and in many countries.
The 2012 World Conference on Physics Education will be a concrete step forward in global cooperation. Envisaged as a series of conferences with a four year periodicity, it would be a working conference with follow-up actions that presumably would carry over to the following conference.
Conference Theme
The Role of Context, Culture, and Representations in Physics Teaching and Learning
General Informations
2012 World Conference on Physics Education
Date: July 1-6, 2012
Venue: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, İstanbul / Turkey
Çırağan Caddesi, Osmanpaşa Mektebi Sokak, No: 4 – 6
34353 Beşiktaş, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Committees
The Local Organizing Committee
Chair, M. Fatih Taşar, Gazi Üniversitesi
Metin Orbay, Amasya Üniversitesi
Esra Akgül, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
Şebnem Kandil İngec, Gazi Üniversitesi
WCPE 2012 Scientific Advisory Committee
Leoš Dvořák, Charles University, Czech Republic
Ton Ellermeijer, CMA, The Netherlands
Francisco Esquembre, Universidad De Murcia, Spain
Zulma Gangoso, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Claudia Haagen-Schuetzenhoefer, Universität Wien, Austria
Aziz Fatima Hasnain, Centre for Physics Education, Pakistan
Jafaar Jantan, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Pratibha Jolly, University of Delhi, India
Bob Lambourne, Open University, UK
Ian Lawrence, University of Birmingham, UK
Leopold Mathelitsch, Universität Graz, Austria
Alex Mazzolini, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Marisa Michelini, Università di Udine, Italy
César Mora, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Feral Ogan Bekiroğlu, Marmara Üniversitesi, Turkey
Wim Peeters, GIREP, Belgium
Gordon P. Ramsey, Loyola University Chicago, US
Manjula Devi Sharma, The University of Sydney, Australia
David Sokoloff, University of Oregon, US
M. Fatih Taşar, Gazi Üniversitesi, Turkey
Dean Zollman, Kansas State University, US
The Local Scientific Committee
Ali Rıza Akdeniz, Rize Üniversitesi
Esra Akgül, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
Şule Bayraktar, Konya Üniversitesi
Erdat Çataloğlu, Bilkent Üniversitesi
Salih Çepni, Uludağ Üniversitesi
Dilek Erduran Avcı, Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi
Ali Eryılmaz, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
Bilal Güneş, Gazi Üniversitesi
Fitnat Kaptan, Hacettepe Üniversitesi
İzzet Kara, Pamukkale Üniversitesi
Orhan Karamustafaoğlu, Amasya Üniversitesi
Ahmet İlhan Şen, Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Mehmet Fatih Taşar, Gazi Üniversitesi
Betül Timur, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
Pervin Ünlü, Gazi Üniversitesi
Organization Secretariat
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