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Comparative Methods for Teaching an Astronomical Topic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Syuzo Isobe
Syuzo Isobe*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181, Japan

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Astronomy has greatly progressed in this decade. The number of people who are interested in astronomical phenomena is certainly increasing as the number of IAU members increases. These people are divided into several categories, depending on their degrees of interests. For Japan, these are as follows:

The situation is changed when some such special event, such as a return of Halley’s comet, occurs. We can say that our present target in teaching astronomy is to increase the number of people in each category except the last one.

Type
3. The Teaching Process
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 105: The Teaching of Astronomy , 1990 , pp. 103 - 108
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990