PHYSICS SUBJECT MATTER IN SECONDARY EDUCATION

Three-years secondary education is being successfully applied in many countries across Europe and World. Data from International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, show that some countries, Greece, Finland, France, Russia, Japan, Brazil, and Albania have applied the new education structure nine plus three; nine years of primary education and three years of secondary education. Other countries, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Spain, apply other structures of primary and secondary education. Focusing on natural sciences, these studies show that math is holding the first place in secondary education, physics is ranking second, and then biology or chemistry. The new structure needs new curriculum developments. According to Curriculum Developments, UNESCO, new curriculums should give universal priority to the living needs of our planet, such as environmental protection, water and ecology, or technological inventions. To this aim, physics offers great help with all its topics. Curriculum developments upon physical laws can help to empower society and citizens, in order to face any present necessities and also a challenging future. Considering the demands for scientific and technological developments, physics is connecting theory and exercises with experiments and applications. Proper recommendations are encouraging new tendendencies in the economy of education for laboratory investments in physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics.