L’elettrodinamica dei corpi in movimento in classe: studenti di scuola secondaria a confronto con Fisica, Epistemologia e Storia del pensiero scientifico

The paper reports the main results of an experience in teaching Special Relativity to 17-18 year old students of a Scientific Lyceum. The course stressed in depth understanding of crucial concepts and mastering content knowledge from epistemological and cultural perspectives. The results show that involving students in high cultural challenges is possible and suggest that their dislike of physics might be due not to its intrinsic difficulty but to the perception that the difficulty is not repaid by what it usually offers.