Chemical Education

by Gilbert, John K.; De Jong, Onno; Justi, Rosaria; Treagust, David F.; Van Driel, Jan H.

• ISBN13: 9781402011849
• ISBN10: 1402011849
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Chemical education is essential to everybody because it deals with ideas that play major roles in personal, social, and economic decisions. This book is based on three principles: that all aspects of chemical education should be associated with research; that the development of opportunities for chemical education should be both a continuous process and be linked to research; and that the professional development of all those associated with chemical education should make extensive and diverse use of that research. It is intended for: pre-service and practising chemistry teachers and lecturers; chemistry teacher educators; chemical education researchers; the designers and managers of formal chemical curricula; informal chemical educators; authors of textbooks and curriculum support materials; practising chemists and chemical technologists. It addresses: the relation between chemistry and chemical education; curricula for chemical education; teaching and learning about chemical compounds and chemical change; the development of teachers; the development of chemical education as a field of enquiry. This is mainly done in respect of the full range of formal education contexts (schools, universities, vocational colleges) but also in respect of informal education contexts (books, science centres and museums).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

General Preface

Foreword

Chemistry and Chemical Education. Preface to Section A

The Nature of Chemical Knowledge and Chemical Education

The History of Chemistry: Potential and Actual Contributions to Chemical Education

Models and Modelling in Chemical Education

Learning Chemistry in a Laboratory Environment

The Curriculum for Chemical Education

Preface to Section B

Chemical Curricula for General Education: Analysis and Elements of a Design

The Roles of Chemistry in Vocational Education

Informal Chemical Education

Context-based Approaches to the Teaching of Chemistry: What are They and What are Their Effects?

Teaching and Learning about Chemical Compounds

Preface to Section C

The Particulate Nature of Matter: Challenges in Understanding in the Submicroscopic World

Bonding

Prblem-Solving in Chemistry

Teaching and Learning about Chemical Change

Preface to Section D

The Teaching and Learning of Chemical Equilibrium

Teaching and Learning Chemical Kinetics

The Teaching and Learning of Electrochemistry

From Chemical Energetics to Chemical Thermodynamics

Developing Teachers and Chemical Education

Preface to Section E

Exploring Chemistry Teacher's Knowledge Base

Research and Development for the Future of Chemical Education

Notes about the Contributors

Index

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