American Association of Physics Teachers.
American Association of Physics Teachers history of the Piaget workshops, 1973-1976.
Collection documents the transformation of an idea for a grant proposal into a workshop offered at the Annual Meeting in January 1975, and its subsequent revision. Includes material on the revision of the workshop in 1975, and materials from the workshop offered in January 1976, as well as a summary by Robert G. Fuller on the origins, partners, locations and other descriptive information. Fuller describes how he was asked to serve on the original committee by Bob Karplus along with John Renner, Frank Collea, Les Paldy and Arnold Arons.
This professional society of teachers of physics in colleges, universities, and secondary schools, was established in 1930 to advance the teaching of physics and further the appreciation of the role of physics in society and culture. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics.
Arons, A. B. (Arnold B.)
Karplus, Robert
Renner, John Wilson, 1924-
Education -- Societies, etc.
Physics -- Societies, etc.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Collea, Frank.
Paldy, Les.
Fuller, Robert G. compiler.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA