Context-based chemistry curricula
Since the 1980s, a shift away from SOD and HOS curricula in many countries can be observed. This movement is still in operation. New curricula are available although in practice in many countries especially SOD curricula are still predominant. The reasons for change is a growing awareness about the problems in traditional chemistry teaching as they are discussed above. One big part of this movement for curriculum change in chemistry education is context-based (CB) chemistry education. For understanding this current change, three examples shall be discussed in brief. ChemCom from the USA, Salters Advanced Chemistry from the UK, and Chemie im Kontext from Germany. ChemCom. One of the pioneering CB chemistry programs was Chemistry in the community (ChemCom) developed in the US in the 1980s (e.g. Schwartz, 2006). The curriculum aims at presenting chemistry along societal contexts on a “need to know” basis. Such contexts include e.g. air and water quality, the use of mineral resources, the production of various sources of energy, industrial chemistry, or chemistry of food and nutrition. ChemCom does not explicitly aim to train future chemists or those who will embark in any kind of science or technology studies. ChemCom’s intentions were chemistry education for all with a focus on preparing informed future citizens. Therefore, ChemCom is mainly driven by its societyrelated contexts and is less explicit, focusing on problem solving, learning chemistry by inquiry, or understanding the sub-microscopic nature of chemistry. An overview of how such a CB curriculum is presented is provided along with the overview of chapters from ChemCom in Table 5. An additional feature of ChemCom is to give the students numerous decision making exercises of various complexity to allow them practice applying chemical knowledge in the context of addressing societal issues. Nevertheless, ChemCom is not a socio-scientific issues driven curriculum (see below), but covers a lot of elements in the same direction.
Context-based chemistry curricula
Since the 1980s, a shift away from SOD and HOS curricula in many countries can be observed. This movement is still in operation. New curricula are available although in practice in many countries especially SOD curricula are still predominant. The reasons for change is a growing awareness about the problems in traditional chemistry teaching as they are discussed above. One big part of this movement for curriculum change in chemistry education is context-based (CB) chemistry education. For understanding this current change, three examples shall be discussed in brief. ChemCom from the USA, Salters Advanced Chemistry from the UK, and Chemie im Kontext from Germany. ChemCom. One of the pioneering CB chemistry programs was Chemistry in the community (ChemCom) developed in the US in the 1980s (e.g. Schwartz, 2006). The curriculum aims at presenting chemistry along societal contexts on a “need to know” basis. Such contexts include e.g. air and water quality, the use of mineral resources, the production of various sources of energy, industrial chemistry, or chemistry of food and nutrition. ChemCom does not explicitly aim to train future chemists or those who will embark in any kind of science or technology studies. ChemCom’s intentions were chemistry education for all with a focus on preparing informed future citizens. Therefore, ChemCom is mainly driven by its societyrelated contexts and is less explicit, focusing on problem solving, learning chemistry by inquiry, or understanding the sub-microscopic nature of chemistry. An overview of how such a CB curriculum is presented is provided along with the overview of chapters from ChemCom in Table 5. An additional feature of ChemCom is to give the students numerous decision making exercises of various complexity to allow them practice applying chemical knowledge in the context of addressing societal issues. Nevertheless, ChemCom is not a socio-scientific issues driven curriculum (see below), but covers a lot of elements in the same direction.
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