Heuristics in the Teaching Process: a Creative Way to Identify Researge Problems

Abstract

A crucial stage of the research process is to determine the research problem in a clear and precise way. The full assumption of the perspective that is proposed here presupposes to break with a set of mental and practical barriers, which instead of favoring the productive research activity of students during their training, not only at high school, but also at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, constitute an ob-stacle for it. This means, of course, the fulfillment of a task by a group of people, which goes beyond the objective of this work. This paper aims at providing some ideas about the heuristics and the logic concern-ing the process to determine scientific problems, by means of the analysis of some common examples in the teaching of Physics from high school to university.