International Conference on Physics Education

Physics Education is a cross-sectional discipline connected with almost all subjects in Physics. It is a recent research field on its own investigating the process of teaching and learning Physics with the aim to improve them. Many academics acknowledge the importance of Physics Education research and its role in exposing students’ learning difficulties in Physics courses. In addition, difficulties in getting messages across on how important teaching and learning processes are to the success, and lack thereof, of the physics educational system at large have also been realized. There are two characteristic views in Physics Education using different scientific resources and methods but interconnected with each other in manifold ways: one directed to the Physics subject to be taught, the other focused on the student and his ability to learn and understand Physics. For this purpose researchers in this field have to cooperate with scientists from other disciplines like educational theorists and psychologists and with teachers, as well. But the main partners are physicists from the different areas of Physics. Therefore it is essential for the development of Physics Education that these scientists remain willingly to make appropriate contributions to this field and to cooperate with the science educators.