Elon Langbeheim
Senior Lecturer of Science Teaching and Learning | School of Education
My research focuses on the learning and teaching of acience - primarily in secondary schools. It explores the role of physical experiences, visual representations, and computer models in learning physics and chemistry. Interactions with representaions plays a significant role in making abstract mechanisms that explain proccesses in physics and chemistry more accessible. For example, we found that learning with a physical representation - a magnetic model of the chemical bond - greatly contributes to the conceptual understanding of ninth-grade students. However, this understanding is applied differently by students in honors classes compaed to those in regular classes.
Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-3999
I joined the program for Science and Technology Education in Ben-Gurion university as a senior lecturer on October 2019. After several years teaching physics and chemistry in high school, I completed my Ph.D at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Edit Yerushalmi and Prof. Samuel Safran in 2014. I then spent two years at the Mary Lou Fulton teachers’ college of Arizona State University, and another three years as a senior intern at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
