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The flight from physics education: searching for reasons by comparisons across the curriculum

Martin Monk

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Cross-curriculum comparisons help open up new perspectives on old issues. The flight from physics by students is one such issue. Here a comparison is made with music education and language education. Where these comparisons provide useful insights they can also warn against knee-jerk panaceas. It is suggested we need to understand how and why young people make their career decisions before we take further action.


PACS

01.40.-d Education

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Education and communication

Dates

Issue 2 (March 2008)

Received 16 April 2007, in final form 20 July 2007



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