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The purpose of the review is to describe the approaches to the didactics of physics which appeared in the Czech Republic during its development, and to discuss especially the relationships between the didactics of physics and other fields. It should be beneficial to the understanding of the current situation and to the prognosis of the future development. The main, part of the paper includes the characteristics of particular approaches of the Czech didactics of physics. In chronological order, these are the methodological, application, integration and communicative approaches. The summary and concluding discussion deals with the relationships between the didactics of physics and the subject of physics itself, pedagogy and other fields. It seems that the methodological approach is closely connected to physics, while the application approach comes primarily from pedagogy. The integration approach strives for the utilisation of other scientific fields to develop the didactics of physics. This paper reveals that the most elaborate is the communicative approach. This approach belongs to the concepts which influence the current didactical thinking in the Czech Republic to the highest extent in various fields (including within the didactics of socio-humanist fields). In spite of the communicative approach, it is necessary to admit that the other mentioned approaches are also, to a certain extent, employed and co-exist.

Title: Various Approaches to Didactics of Physics in the Czech Republic and Abroad Abstract: This diploma work deals with selected aspects of didactics of physics as a branch of science. Its aim is to start a more systematic reflection of a domestic didactics of physics in connection with the situation abroad as well as with previous developments in the Czech Republic. Important approaches to didactics of physics, (above all the applied, integrated and communicative approach) are described in this work and attention is also paid to international developments. This work also presents arguments about why didactics of physics could be perceived as a branch of science together with the mutual relationships of didactics of physics with other scientific fields. In the last chapter there is a discussion about new possibilities in the development of didactics of physics, especially about the tendency of mutual linking of didactics of physics with didactics of other school subjects. In this chapter there is also an outline of a new approach which focuses on goals. Keywords: didactics of physics, physics education research, approach to didactics of physics, subject didactics