Learning Difficulties: an Attempted Redefinition and Resulting Future Task for Orthodidactics•

Today the concept "learning difficulties" has become part of the general vocabulary not only of pedagogics but also of a considerable number of related disciplines. Therefore, a general description of this idea is not easy to formulate simply because different contents are continually attributed to this concept from a variety of perspectives. However, the aim is not to establish a generally accepted description of the concept; from a pedagogical perspective it has become urgently necessary to localize the problem more precisely. There are two reasons for this: