Overview

For everybody teaching chemistry or becoming a chemistry teacher, the authors provide a practice-oriented overview with numerous examples from current chemical education, including experiments, models and exercises as well as relevant results from research on learning and teaching. With their proven concept, the authors cover classical topics of chemical education as well as modern topics such as every-day-life chemistry, student’s misconceptions, the use of media or the challenges of motivation. This is the completely revised and updated English edition of a highly successful German title.

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Author:   Hans-Dieter Barke ,  Günther Harsch ,  Siegbert Schmid ,  Hannah Gerdau
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2012
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.688kg
ISBN:  

9783642217555

ISBN 10:   3642217559
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   29 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

Learners ideas and misconceptions.- Motivation.- Teaching aims.- Media.- Experiments.- Structural and mental models.- Scientific terminology and chemical symbols.- Everyday life and chemistry.-  Students discover Organic Chemistry – a Phenomena-oriented and Inquiry-based Network Concept (PIN-Concept).- Structure-oriented approach in chemistry education.       

Reviews

From the reviews: It includes experiments, demonstrations, exercises, and chemical connections to everyday life in its 321 pages ... . Essentials of Chemical Education can be a useful addition to the library of teachers of chemistry teachers. (Hal H. Harris, Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 89, 2012)

From the reviews: It includes experiments, demonstrations, exercises, and chemical connections to everyday life in its 321 pages ... . Essentials of Chemical Education can be a useful addition to the library of teachers of chemistry teachers. (Hal H. Harris, Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 89, 2012)

From the reviews: It includes experiments, demonstrations, exercises, and chemical connections to everyday life in its 321 pages ... . Essentials of Chemical Education can be a useful addition to the library of teachers of chemistry teachers. (Hal H. Harris, Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 89, 2012)

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"Barke and Harsch both got an award of the German Chemical Society (Friedrich-Gmelin-Preis der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker GDCh) Barke is one of the authors of  ""Misconceptions in chemistry"", published in 2009 by Springer"

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