Physics education

Physics education is the science of teaching and learning physics.

It focusses on the question of what should be taught in physics lessons (aims of physics lessons and justifications) and all aspects of the question of how these aims can be achieved. This includes analysing pupils' learning processes, surveying pupils' perceptions, designing teaching units, developing experimental materials and teaching media and testing them scientifically.

Physics education is an interdisciplinary science; physics, technology, education, philosophy, sociology and psychology are of particular importance. It can be said that physics education belongs to pedagogy or educational sciences and relates to physics.

Physics education is thus the mediator, the bridge between the subject of physics and educational science, between the subject perspective and the educational task.