Overview
- Shows importance of active learning for the successful teaching and learning of chemistry
- Suggests teaching approaches developed based on research data
- Covers all levels of chemistry education from elementary school to university
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This volume offers a critical examination of a variety of conceptual approaches to teaching and learning chemistry in the school classroom. Presenting up-to-date research and theory and featuring contributions by respected academics on several continents, it explores ways of making knowledge meaningful and relevant to students as well as strategies for effectively communicating the core concepts essential for developing a robust understanding of the subject.
Structured in three sections, the contents deal first with teaching and learning chemistry, discussing general issues and pedagogical strategies using macro, sub-micro and symbolic representations of chemical concepts. Researchers also describe new and productive teaching strategies. The second section examines specific approaches that foster learning with understanding, focusing on techniques such as cooperative learning, presentations, laboratory activities, multimedia simulations and role-playing in forensic chemistry classes. The final part of the book details learner-centered active chemistry learning methods, active computer-aided learning and trainee chemistry teachers` use of student-centered learning during their pre-service education. Comprehensive and highly relevant, this new publication makes a significant contribution to the continuing task of making chemistry classes engaging and effective.
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Keywords
- active learning
- chemical concepts
- chemical education
- chemie im kontext
- chemistry education
- chemistry students
- chemistry teachers
- conceptual learning
- context in learning chemistry
- cooperative learning in chemistry
- learning chemical concepts
- learning chemistry
- predict-observe-explain instructional strategy
- science education
- teaching chemistry
- learning and instruction
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Section I Teaching and Learning Chemistry
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Section I Teaching and Learning Chemistry
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Section II Approaches in Chemistry Teaching for Learning with Understanding
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Section II Approaches in Chemistry Teaching for Learning with Understanding
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning with Understanding in the Chemistry Classroom
Editors: Iztok Devetak, Saša Aleksij Glažar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4366-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4365-6Published: 28 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0602-3Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4366-3Published: 14 January 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 418
Number of Illustrations: 129 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education