On the Nature of “Context” in Chemical Education
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Some of the most pressing problems currently facing chemical education throughout the world are rehearsed. It is suggested that if the notion of “context” is to be used as the basis for an address to these problems, it must enable a number of challenges to be met. Four generic models of “context” are identified that are currently used or that may be used in some form within chemical education as the basis for curriculum design. It is suggested that a model based on physical settings, together with their cultural justifications, and taught with a socio‐cultural perspective on learning, is likely to meet those challenges most fully. A number of reasons why the relative efficacies of these four models of approaches cannot be evaluated from the existing research literature are suggested. Finally, an established model for the representation of the development of curricula is used to discuss the development and evaluation of context‐based chemical curricula.
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Visual representations can help reduce student difficulties when moving between the different representational levels if pupils know how to interpret them.
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“Visual representations can help in reducing student difficulties when moving between the different representational levels (Gilbert, 2006) if pupils know how to interpret them (Pintó and Ametller, 2002).”
Background
- Authors
- Gilbert, J. K.
- Affiliations
- University of Reading (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Gilbert, John K.
- ORCID
- Gilbert, John K.
- Venue
- International Journal of Science Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-07-14
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 957-976
- ISSN
- 0950-0693 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-5289
- OpenAlex
- W1976988822
- Cited by
- 810
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 57.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hal.science
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- International Journal of Science Education (publishedVersion)
- CentAUR (University of Reading) (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) (submittedVersion)
- Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Science Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Education › Chemistry Education and Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies
- Keywords
- contextual learning, chemistry education, curriculum development, physical environment, curriculum evaluation, chemistry curriculum
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