With regard to pre-service physics teachers’ understandings of physics education, their responses centered
around three main points. First, they stressed the importance of active engagement strategies that can be used within
the physics classroom to help students connect with the content. They indicated that hands-on activities, laboratory
experiences, and “doing physics”—an extension of Hodson [3]—is the best way to teach physics and that
transmitting content through direct instruction does not seem to inspire or reach all students. Second, they