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All good teaching must start with some sort of common assumption between the teacher and the student. These assumptions can then provide the basis upon which knowledge can be exchanged later. How do we know which of these assumptions are the right ones, however?
Richard is currently in the third year of his PhD at the University of Cambridge researching the concept of making-sense in
physics education. After studying physics at
Durham University, he taught in Japan before training to be a secondary physics teacher. He taught at a comprehensive school in Essex for eight years before returning to educational
research.
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