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Peter Heering

Peter Heering

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Peter Heering is Full Professor of Physics and its Didactics and its History at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. He studied physics and chemistry to become a secondary school teacher. After completing a PhD in physics history and didactics and a two year internship (Referendariat), he became senior lecturer in the institute of physics at the Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

After being a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum München and a professorial substitute in physics didactics at the Universität Augsburg, Heering moved to Flensburg in 2009. 

Research focus

  • History of Physics
  • Replication method
  • history of science education
  • history of science in science education

Awards

  • Paul-Bunge Preis, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker und die Deutschen Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie 2024
  • Archimedes-Preis, Deutschen Verein zur Förderung des mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts e.V.2011
Peter Heering
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ORCID: 0000-0002-4002-4168 Print page

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Publications by Peter Heering

Objects of Understanding
New
Peter Heering (ed.) , Roland Wittje (ed.)
Objects of Understanding
New
Historical Perspectives on Material Artefacts and Practices in Science Education
Learning by Doing
Peter Heering (ed.) , Roland Wittje (ed.)
Learning by Doing
Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching
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