Foreword
January 6th, 2007
The International Conference of GIREP 2004 „Teaching and Learning Physics in New Contexts“ will include physics and the physics teaching/learning process as they concern ecology, climate, biology, biophysics, chemistry, medicine, industry, economy, arts, and all processes that can improve our life conditions from the point of view of physics.
Research in physics education is included into programme. Themes that concern the impact of educational research on physics teaching/learning process, interactive tutorial-based online laboratory, learning environment that will make an introductory physics course at the college level accessible to anyone as result from research, physics distance education etc.
Transformation processes in teaching/learning physics: Changes are in secondary school education, in physics introductory courses at universities, distance education is phenomenon of everyday life, and interdisciplinary of physics has to be taken into account in new curricula of physics and new branches of physics.
Participants of the conference will be physicists, physics teachers engaged in education of physics, and scientific workers in physics with new ideas for teaching/learning process. Conference is open to all of them.