Aadu Ott - a brief presentation
Title: PhD, Reader/Associate Professor
Unit: Subject-matter didactics
Phone: 46 (0)31-786 2262
E-mail: Aadu.Ott@ped.gu.se
Research interests
History of technology, Technology, Didactics, Neuroscience and teaching
Teaching interests
An all-pervading interest is to place science and technology in a historical perspective in order to elucidate issues involving teaching and learning in an all-round manner. A cardinal principle is that the instruction students receive must be relevant also in their future occupations. In order to be able to deal with problems not known to us today, they must become familiar with viewing problems from many disparate perspectives and thus acquire functional preparedness for action. The foundation for life-long learning must be established early. This also entails that student attitudes to knowledge and learning must be positive if that knowledge is to be able to remain vital and for them to be able to develop what they learned in their basic education.
Keywords:
physics, technology, didactics, history of technology, neuroscience
Selected publications:
Ott, A. (2000): Att lära för skolan eller för livet? Sociokulturell och naturvetenskaplig diskurs i växelverkan. Nordisk Pedagogik, Journal of Nordic Educational Research. Vol 20, Nr 2, sid. 90–106.
Ott, A. & Vedin, L-G. (2001). Interaction between Culture and technology in Informal Learning. Proceedings from the Conference “Lernort Deutsches Museum: Koncepte, Inhalte, Methoden von Lern- und Lehrerveranstaltungen im Kerschensteiner Kolleg, vom 22–25 Oktober 2000.
Ott, A. & Vedin, L-G. (2002a). World Wide Workshop - A Sociocultural Odysssé. Proceedings of the ETEN Conference Technology Education in Schools and in Teacher Training" Munich 10–12 November 2000.
Ott, A. (2002): A Theoretical Approach to Science Education. Baltic Journal of Science Education nr 1, vol 1.
Ott, A. (2000): Didaktiska aspekter på Georg Henrik von Wrights kosmologi. Didaktisk Tidskrift i sept. 2000.
Ott, A. & Broman, L. (1998): On a Space Epic and its Author. Planetarian, Journal of the International Planetarium Society, Vol. 27, No 2, June 1998, pp. 5–11.
Ott, A. and Vedin, L-G. (2002): From Antiquity to Affl uence. Paper presented at the second ETEN conference on Technology Education, 8th to 9th february, 2002 at the University of Greenwich, London.
Ott, A. (2006). Should "Nature of Science" and “Nature of Mind" be Married?. Paper presented at the NNORSC Conference in Falun 1–2 May 2006.