Didactic issues of teaching / learning the electric field concept in Benin republic, students' difficulties and prospect

Abstract

There are many studies in science didactics on the learners' difficulties in teaching and learning of knowledge, but few deals with difficulties in teaching/learning about the electric field concept and associated notions. Our study aims to identify some of these difficulties and the obstacles that engender students from conceptions related to the electric field concept in various problem-solving situations by referring to the theory of conceptual fields and the theory of didactic situations. It appears that these difficulties are phenomenological and conceptual and sometimes related to the use of mathematical tools.