Modern societies moved toward specialization.1 Religion, science, and art have become separate realms of human activity.2 Specialization usually occurs through school, which in turn mirrors and sustains social discourses and labor markets. Most socially prestigious and well-paid occupations require higher academic qualifications. As cultural capital is correlated with academic achievement, school often reproduces social structures and fails to diminish cultural imbalances.3
According to common representations, scientific tasks involve skills such as observation and analysis, or attitudes such as rigor and method (model of objectivity); conversely, artistic tasks involve skills such as creativity and divergent thinking, or attitudes such as irreverence and originality (model of subjectivity): “As students move further along in school the gulf deepens, so that by graduate school it is a rare student who takes courses outside his or her field”.4
Chemistry teachers are primarily concerned with students’ learning. Methods that challenge the limits of curricula and classes may help chemistry students to perform better.5 In this commentary, we will review and comment on some emp