Chemical Education: Towards Research-based Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Chemistry and Chemical Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5

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   2. The Nature of Chemical Knowledge and Chemical Education

      • Sibel Erduran, Eric Scerri

      Pages 7-27

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

      • James H. Wandersee, Phyllis Baudoin Griffard

      Pages 29-46

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   4. Models and Modelling in Chemical Education

      • Rosaria Justi, John Gilbert

      Pages 47-68

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   5. Learning Chemistry in a Laboratory Environment

      • Mary B. Nakhleh, John Polles, Eric Malina

      Pages 69-94

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3. The Curriculum for Chemical Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-100

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   2. Chemistry Curricula for General Education: Analysis and Elements of A Design

      • Wobbe De Vos, Astrid Bulte, Albert Pilot

      Pages 101-124

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   3. The Roles of Chemistry in Vocational Education

      • Deborah Corrigan, Peter Fensham

      Pages 125-141

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   4. Informal Chemical Education

      • Susan Stocklmayer, John Gilbert

      Pages 143-164

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   5. Context-Based Approaches to the Teaching of Chemistry: What are They and What Are Their Effects?

      • Judith Bennett, John Holman

      Pages 165-184

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4. Teaching and Learning about Chemical Compounds

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-188

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

      • Allan G Harrison, David F Treagust

      Pages 189-212

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   3. Bonding

      • Keith S. Taber, Richard K. Coll

      Pages 213-234

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   4. Problem-Solving in Chemistry

      • George M. Bodner, J. Dudley Herron

      Pages 235-266

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5. Teaching and Learning About Chemical Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-270

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   2. The Teaching and Learning of Chemical Equilibrium

      • Jan H. van Driel, Wolfgang Gräber

      Pages 271-292

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   3. Teaching and Learning Chemical Kinetics

      • Rosária Justi

      Pages 293-315

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   4. The Teaching and Learning of Electrochemistry

      • Onno De Jong, David Treagust

      Pages 317-337

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   5. From Chemical Energetics to Chemical Thermodynamics

      • Martin J. Goedhart, Wolter Kaper

      Pages 339-362

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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).

• base
• chemistry
• education
• electrochemistry
• thermodynamics
• vocational education
• learning and instruction

"The chapters are clearly written and are of sufficient length to provide in-dpeth treatment of each topic. [...] there is a wealth of research information about students' abilities to solve problems but there is little known about teachers' understanding of basic chemical knowledge. [...] the book will be of considerable interest to all chemistry teachers and chemical educationalists."
(Education in Chemistry, March 2004)

• The University of Reading, UK

  John K. Gilbert

• Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  Onno Jong

• Federal University of Minas Gerias, Brazil

  Rosária Justi

• Curtin University of Technology, Australia

  David F. Treagust

• Leiden University, The Netherlands

  Jan H. Driel

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