Relevant chemistry education : : from theory to practice / / edited by Ingo Eilks and Avi Hofstein.

This book is aimed at chemistry teachers, teacher educators, chemistry education researchers, and all those who are interested in increasing the relevance of chemistry teaching and learning as well as students' perception of it. The book consists of 20 chapters. Each chapter focuses on a certai...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (389 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Ingo Eilks and Avi Hofstein
  • From Some Historical Reflections on the Issue of Relevance of Chemistry Education Towards a Model and an Advance Organizer – A Prologue / Ingo Eilks and Avi Hofstein
  • Why is it Relevant to Learn the Big Ideas in Chemistry at School? / Onno de Jong and Vicente Talanquer
  • Chemistry and Everyday Life: Relating Secondary School Chemistry to the Current and Future Lives of Students / Peter E. Childs , Sarah M. Hayes and Anne O’Dwyer
  • Learning Chemistry to Enrich Students’ Views on the World they Live in / Hannah Sevian and Astrid M. W. Bulte
  • Epistemic Relevance and Learning Chemistry in an Academic Context / Keith S. Taber
  • The Role of Values in Chemistry Education / Deborah Corrigan , Rebecca Cooper and Stephen Keast
  • Promoting Metacognitive Skills in the Context of Chemistry Education / Yehudit Judy Dori and Shirly Avargil
  • Promoting Argumentation in the Context of Chemistry Stories / Sibel Erduran and Aybuke Pabuccu
  • Chemistry Education for Sustainability / Jesper Sjöström , Franz Rauch and Ingo Eilks
  • The Idea of Filtered Information and the Learning About the use of Chemistry-Related Information in the Public / Nadja Belova , Marc Stuckey , Ralf Marks and Ingo Eilks
  • Making Chemistry Education Relevant through Mass Media / Shu-Nu Chang Rundgren and Carl-Johann Rundgren
  • Learning About Relevance Concerning Cultural and Gender Differences in Chemistry Education / Rachel Mamlok-Naaman , Simone Abels and Silvija Markic
  • Science-Technology-Society as a Feasible Paradigm for the Relevance of Chemistry Education in Emerging Countries / Andoni Garritz , Bruno Ferreira dos Santos and María Gabriela Lorenzo
  • Understanding the Change Toward a Greener Chemistry by Those Who do Chemistry and Those Who Teach Chemistry / George M. Bodner
  • Learning From and About Industry for Relevant Chemistry Education / Avi Hofstein and Miri Kesner
  • The Role of Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education in Chemistry Career Clarification / Richard K. Coll
  • Innovation and Employability: Moving Beyond the Buzzwords -a Theoretical Lens to Improve Chemistry Education / Jan Alexis Nielsen and Henriette Tolstrup Holmegaard
  • Relevance of Non-Formal Education in Science Education / Sakari Tolppanen , Jenni Vartiainen , Veli-Matti Ikävalko and Maija Aksela
  • Using Informal Learning Experiences to Enhance Student Learning Outcomes in Chemistry / Sandhya D. Coll and David Treagust
  • Professional Development of Chemistry Teachers for Relevant Chemistry Education / Muhamad Hugerat , Rachel Mamlok-Naaman , Ingo Eilks and Avi Hofstein
  • Index / Ingo Eilks and Avi Hofstein.