ISLE, the Investigative Science Learning Environment, is an intentional holistic learning environment for physics. It addresses two main goals: to help students learn physics by engaging them in the processes that mirror scientific practice and to improve their well-being while they are learning physics. Eugenia Etkina started this approach nearly 40 years ago and has been an ardent teacher educator in the years since. This interview with Eugenia provides the educational philosophy behind ISLE, specific examples of how the approach works, and the support network that can get you started.

Show notes: www.physicsalive.com/ISLE

Learn more about Eugenia and her work:

• www.islephysics.net

• Eugenia's faculty page

You can email Eugenia at:

• eugenia.etkina@gse.rutgers.edu

ISLE website:

• www.islephysics.net
• Adopting the ISLE approach

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ISLE resource page on PhysPort

• https://www.physport.org/methods/method.cfm?G=ISLE

ISLE Implementation Guide on PhysPort

• https://www.physport.org/methods/Section.cfm?G=ISLE&S=What

Articles:

• 2020 - Implementing an epistemologically authentic approach to student-centered inquiry learning
• 2015 – Eugenia’s Millikan Lecture
• 2007 – ISLE guide, a chapter from “Research-Based Reform of University Physics”