The Difference Between the Lifeworld of Children and the World of Physics: A Basic Problem for Teaching and Learning Mechanics

The thematization of the difference between the lifeworld and the standpoint of physics should bring into view a difficulty which lies in the learning of physics itself rather than in external conditions.As the most basic problem in the learning and teaching of physics, this difficulty does not simply concern mechanics.But, in this article, mechanics is taken to be exemplary for this basic issue, and in a way which is structurally the same in the thinking of both adults and children.