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New Trends in Physics Teaching IV
aged 13 and 14, not all children of that age have reached the same stage in their development.
Some of them still identify light completely with its source or with its effects; many of them
refer to the concept of light as an entity in space only in a limited number of situations. In
addition, they often assign to that entity properties to which the physicist would not give his
assent. We must discover the ideas held by children if we want to have a greater chance of helping
them to progress.
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