The physics education group works within the Department of Experimental Physics. Our educational and research activities are determined by the professional context provided by our natural links to the Department of Experimental Physics, by the newest results in subject-pedagogy research and because of the recently growing needs of public education. According to this, our research activity can be grouped around the following domains:
- curriculum development, modernisation of the phyiscs curricula at highschool, tertiary and postgraduate levels;
- education reseach;
- development of experiments; new experiments for laboratory and classroom demonstrations;
- the examination of the possibilities of using modern technical equipment in teaching physics;
- the professional and methodological problems of talent-care;
- postgraduate training of teachers;
- the examination of students' level of knowledge and attitude toward a particular subject;
- the examination of problems resulting from the objectives provided by the Hungarian Core Curriculum (NCC);
- the co-ordination of subjects;
- the examination of the possibilities of applying games (decision-games, toys) in teaching physics;
- history of science.
The above mentioned broad domain can be further divided into definite research fields. The results of these research fields of course react on our instructional work in the narrow sense (lectures, practices, special course of lectures), on dealing with students (supervising thesis, directing students' scientific work). A spectacular result on the latter field is the great number of successful thesis and the results of students who were the representatives of the subject-pedagogy student-circle maintained by us, reached at the National Scientific Conference of Students'. We have a continuos live connection with highschool physics teachers. We find the occasion for transferring the newest methods of teaching physics at the different forums of teachers' further training, at national and international educational conferences, at the programmes of ELFT, and at equipment exhibitions and experimental shows. So our relationship to secondary school students is direct too; we help the work of secondary school talent-care with experimental shows, with arranging the experimental round of the OKTV (National Educational Competition of Secondary School Students), category I.; with writing school books and course-book reviews, and with writing exercise-books and modules for the optional courses of study. The financial support we won with our successful applications (FEFA, MKM, AMFK, KOMA, OMFB, IHM) are essential supplements of the university budget.