On the Anniversary of the Scientific Conference "Models and Modeling in Physics Teaching Methods": Key Research Ideas and Prospects for the Development of Physics Education

Identificator

EDN: RUEVZT ; УДК: 37.016:53

Authors

Uvarova Marina Pavlovna, PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor, associate professor of the Department of Physics, Vyatka State University. Russia, Kirov. ORCID: 0000-0002-0058-8313. E-mail: mpozolotina@mail.ru ; Kokhanov Konstantin Anatolyevich, PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor, Deputy Director, Center for Additional Education for Gifted Schoolchildren. Russia, Kirov. ORCID: 0009-0006-2281-7697. E-mail: kokhanovka@mail.ru

Journal

HERALD OF VYATKA STATE UNIVERSITY №3 (157), 2025

Section

SCIENTIFIC LIFE

Pages

111-118

Abstract

Modeling is a key method of natural-science cognition. However, its application in physics teaching methods began comparatively recently. The first all-Russian conference dedicated to the modeling method in teaching physics was held in 1997 in Kirov. Its title, "Models and Modeling in Physics Teaching Methods", effectively sparked new methodological research. The conference's inspirer, Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor Yu. A. Saurov of the Kirov Pedagogical Institute, managed to involve virtually all of the country's leading methodologists in the conference, including V. V. Multanovsky and A. S. Vasilevsky, authors of theoretical physics textbooks for students of pedagogical universities; V. G. Razumovsky, I. I. Nurminsky and N. K. Gladysheva, authors of school physics textbooks; and leading experts in the field of the educational physics experiment, S. A. Khoroshavin, V. V. Mayer, E. S. Obyedkov, L. A. Gorev, G. A. Butyrsky, and many others (a total of 66 participants, including 3 members of the academies of sciences, 14 doctors of science and professors, and 30 candidates of science). Almost 30 years have passed since the first conference – the 10th anniversary conference was held in November 2025. During this time, methodologists and teachers have accomplished a great deal of work. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to present the results of key research on the issues of organizing educational modeling activities and the use of models in physics teaching methods.

Keywords

modeling model physics teaching methods

Recieved

23.01.2026

Published

16.07.2026

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