Belarusian experience in reducing gender gap in Natural Science using heuristic learning approach in physics education in university

Abstract

This work aims at demonstrating how the implementation of problem-heuristic approach can be used effectively to encourage girls’ achievements and interest in Natural Science. Based on outcomes of the voluntary educational project “Heuristics in Physics” (“HiP”) created for IT students by I.I. Tashlykova-Bushkevich in 2018 at the BSUIR the goal of this study is to reveal the effect of the author’s technology of physics lectures organization with elements of heuristic learning on involving girls as well as boys in creative activities to make their own educational content on physics in the study of general physics course.