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Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

Abstract

Interest may be seen as the medium and the goal of educational processes. Students will learn physics better, and moreover, choose physics course intentionally if they are interested in it. Unfortunately, over the last two decades a persistent decline of students’ interest in physics has found in many countries. This literature review mainly focused on student’s interest in physics. It is concluded that the influential factors which cause students to disinterested in physics are: (1) they were lack of familiarity with physics; (2) they regarded physics as the most difficult science; (3) most school science courses rely on a large amount of memorization or rote learning; and (4) they are admittedly worried about failing the class. In addition, lack of student interest can be quite a challenge for teachers to combat such as by applying teaching-based technology, using project-based learning, increasing human being context or making cross-curricular connections, and showing the use of physics concept in the future. Teachers can cultivate students’ situational interest to personal interest by revitalizing contents (topics), context, and learning activity in conjunction with the content and context.

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