Manuel Bächtold

Senior Lecturer HDR

Portrait photo Manuel Bächtold

research themes

  • Learning to argue about socio-scientific issues and its links with students' epistemic beliefs
  • Pedagogical practices at university (active teaching and direct teaching)
  • The links between epistemic beliefs, motivation and students' approach to learning
  • Investigative science teaching practices

Previous research topics :

  • Investigative science teaching: theoretical foundations and teacher practices
  • Elementary school teachers' view of science
  • Teaching energy in high school in the light of the history and philosophy of science
  • A pragmatist interpretation of quantum mechanics

Teaching

Licence Pluri & MEEF, Master MEEF for primary schools, Master MEEF for secondary schools in physics and chemistry, Master DDS (Didactics of Sciences), Master in energy.

Responsibilities

  • Director of the Observatoire de la Transformation Pédagogique - OTP - at the University of Montpellier
  • AREN-DIA project co-leader
  • (Co-)supervision of theses: Melo, E. (2016), Pallarès, G. (2019), De Checchi, K. (2021), Huet, C. (2022); in progress: Roca, P., Gardet, M., Alaoui Lamharzi, M.