DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING AND TEACHING PHYSICS - VIEWS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. A STUDY OF AFGHANISTAN. (CASE STUDY).

In this study identifying the areas of difficulties in Learning and teaching physics - views of Undergraduate students, a questionnaire was administered to 120 (60 females and 40 males) undergraduate students in physics class and 10 physics Lecturers'. Purposively drawing from Kabul Education University, Parwan and Bamyan universities these universities located in Kabul, Parwan, and Bamyan cities. The major finding shows source of difficulty in Learning and Teaching physics as related: To some concepts of physics and curriculum, students were found to have difficulty understanding specific topics in the physics of Electromagnetic, views concepts that are usually characterized as lacking concrete examples and requiring a lot of mathematical manipulations or visualization many also found difficulty the task of solving problems the physics subjects. The finding has implications for designing interventions and identifying pedagogical techniques that help students overcome the underlying source of difficulties that impede quality learning and teaching physics. The difficulties of self-learning and lack of motivation of students are also highlighted.