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Teaching/Learning Physics -
An Interview with Prof. Suraj Prakash
V.Krishna Moorthy

  • ComCom: Is it a tough business teaching physics?
  • ComCom:What is your observation on current status of Physics teaching in the country?
  • ComCom: What was your experience as a teacher 20 years before and now, do you feel a change?
  • ComCom: Do you feel that mathematics learning and physics learning are interrelated?
  • ComCom: Do you feel "What we are teaching and how can we deliver it", is an important aspect?
  • ComCom: Can you briefly explain your approach to teaching physics?
  • ComCom: If teaching should not be about the teacher as the source of all knowledge and students as passive recipients, so how does a teacher redefine him or herself under such circumstances?
  • ComCom: Why there is a reluctance/fall in taking up Science in general/physics in particular as a stream of study by students?
  • ComCom: "Your Role as the motivator and the head of the department" - Is this responsible for the active participation of teachers in your school?
  • ComCom: Teaching of physics/science anyway responsible for the lack of interest?
  • ComCom: Has WYP-2005 changed this trend, if so, to what extent?
  • ComCom:Is the medium of teaching anything to do with learning? Einstein seems to have not used language as a medium of thinking to build his Physics?
  • ComCom: To what extent the message WYP-2005, or the purpose of the celebrations has reached student/teacher community in this country? Do you have any suggestions to achieve it by some other approaches?
  • ComCom: Sir, at what age did you decide that you wanted to become a science teacher? Was your decision related to any specific event in your life, and if so, what was that event?
  • ComCom: Who is your role model? Why?
  • ComCom: What are your other interests outside of physics?
  • ComCom: Your advice to young scientists and student community?