Educacion Quimica, 24(E2), 462-465, 2013., Nov 1, 2013
The propaganda related with the title of this work says: “With more than 250 million books in pri... more The propaganda related with the title of this work says: “With more than 250 million books in print and more than 1,800 titles, For Dummies is the most widely recognized and highly regarded reference series in the world. Since 1991, For Dummies has helped millions make everything easier”. And that is what I want with the topic of Pedagogical Content Knowl¬edge (PCK), to make it easier to understand it. We resume the recent definition of PCK in this abstract: PCK is a “personal attribute of a teacher, considered both a knowledge base and an action. It is the knowledge of, reasoning behind, planning for, and enactment of teaching a particular topic in a particular way for a particular reason to particular students for enhanced student outcomes”. Those four times that “particular” is mentioned remark on how specific PCK can be.
KEYWORDS: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, for Dummies
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In the Introduction, the gradual changes on teaching research are informed, and how beliefs and attitudes towards science have emerged as a priority reason to interpret several aspects of teachers job, including lesson planning; teaching; assessment; interactions with peers, parents and students, as well as their professional development and the ways they implement reform. Afterwards how beliefs impact on classroom practice is explored and the ways in which they can be shown explicitly.
KEYWORDS: beliefs, instructional practice, pedagogical content knowledge
Keywords: Spanish science, exiled chemists, Mexico’s chemistry improvement
KEYWORDS: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, for Dummies
Inside the international research project Teaching and Learning about Nature of Science and Technology: An experimental and longitudinal research (EANCYT, acronym in Spanish), a teaching/learning sequence is described, which has been designed to improve the comprehension of the Nature Of Science (NoS) and Technology, trying to help students of the General Chemistry course in Undergraduate Education to learn adequate ideas around the scientific compe-tences of «defining» and «modeling». This sequence involves students in an inquiry process related with the history and the definitions of the concepts «substance» and «chemical reaction», two of greatest importance in any chemistry course. Throughout the sequence, students will gradually improve the definitions of these two concepts from the macroscopic level to the nanoscopic one, trying them to be convinced that “defining is modeling”. The students will face the reading of essays on historical and experimental facets of both concepts. Additionally, it is analyzed here the carrying out of the sequence with a group of students on the first semes¬ter of 2012, and the changes that were done after this evaluation.
Keywords: Nature of Science (NoS), teaching/learning sequence, substance, chemical reaction, defining, modeling
This is the fourth part of a set of papers devoted to the relevant participation of women in chemistry. The first part was written as the Editorial of the January-2013 issue of this Journal (Muñoz-Páez y Garritz, 2013a), which keep on with a second part creating the section “women and chemistry” (Muñoz-Páez y Garritz, 2013b). Subsequently, Muñoz-Páez (2013) went on with a third work about Marie Curie. We close this series with some remarkable women of the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries.
Keywords: women and chemistry, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century
This is the second part of a set of papers devoted to the participation of women in chemistry. The first part was written as the Editorial of the January-2013 issue of this Journal. We were going to cover now more than three centuries in this delivery, but there is a huge amount of material and few pages to deal with such a high number of women. So we have decided rather to cover this fascinating topic in three additional works for. This part will include the life of women devoted to chemistry that lived during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, finishing with the tragic death of Clara Immerwahr. The next contribution will be devoted to Marie Curie and the following to women from the twentieth century.
Keywords: women and chemistry, eighteenth century, nineteenth century
Little has been written about the exquisite passion of discovering. This has been the main driving force of the greatest scientists — with the masculine gender — that have been in the world. But what happened with the participation of women? Does science have male gender? It seems it has, but although a careful examination of history reveals not equity, there is certainly an active participation of women in the field of science, despite the open hostility of the majority of their contemporary men.
In this editorial we will take a brief walk through the lives of some of the first of them, from BC, until the seventeenth century. We will start with Tapputi, perhaps the first performer of pharmacy, after her we will deal with some alchemists of the early centuries of our era, as Cleopatra and Mary the Jewess, and then we will move to later alchemists, as Isabella Cortese and Mary Sydney Herbert. We will finish with Marie le Jars de Gournay, Margaret Cavendish and Marie Meurdrac, women living before the arrival of modern chemistry with Lavoisier and his wife Marie Anne, that will be the topic of the second part of this study. Marie Meurdrac published the opus La chymie charitable et facile en faveur des dames, a milestone, being the first work devoted to chemistry for women written by a woman. Her recipes are still used today in beauty parlors.
KEYWORDS: women and chemistry, pharmacy, alchemy, antiquity
In the Introduction, the gradual changes on teaching research are informed, and how beliefs and attitudes towards science have emerged as a priority reason to interpret several aspects of teachers job, including lesson planning; teaching; assessment; interactions with peers, parents and students, as well as their professional development and the ways they implement reform. Afterwards how beliefs impact on classroom practice is explored and the ways in which they can be shown explicitly.
KEYWORDS: beliefs, instructional practice, pedagogical content knowledge
Keywords: Spanish science, exiled chemists, Mexico’s chemistry improvement
KEYWORDS: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, for Dummies
Inside the international research project Teaching and Learning about Nature of Science and Technology: An experimental and longitudinal research (EANCYT, acronym in Spanish), a teaching/learning sequence is described, which has been designed to improve the comprehension of the Nature Of Science (NoS) and Technology, trying to help students of the General Chemistry course in Undergraduate Education to learn adequate ideas around the scientific compe-tences of «defining» and «modeling». This sequence involves students in an inquiry process related with the history and the definitions of the concepts «substance» and «chemical reaction», two of greatest importance in any chemistry course. Throughout the sequence, students will gradually improve the definitions of these two concepts from the macroscopic level to the nanoscopic one, trying them to be convinced that “defining is modeling”. The students will face the reading of essays on historical and experimental facets of both concepts. Additionally, it is analyzed here the carrying out of the sequence with a group of students on the first semes¬ter of 2012, and the changes that were done after this evaluation.
Keywords: Nature of Science (NoS), teaching/learning sequence, substance, chemical reaction, defining, modeling
This is the fourth part of a set of papers devoted to the relevant participation of women in chemistry. The first part was written as the Editorial of the January-2013 issue of this Journal (Muñoz-Páez y Garritz, 2013a), which keep on with a second part creating the section “women and chemistry” (Muñoz-Páez y Garritz, 2013b). Subsequently, Muñoz-Páez (2013) went on with a third work about Marie Curie. We close this series with some remarkable women of the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries.
Keywords: women and chemistry, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century
This is the second part of a set of papers devoted to the participation of women in chemistry. The first part was written as the Editorial of the January-2013 issue of this Journal. We were going to cover now more than three centuries in this delivery, but there is a huge amount of material and few pages to deal with such a high number of women. So we have decided rather to cover this fascinating topic in three additional works for. This part will include the life of women devoted to chemistry that lived during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, finishing with the tragic death of Clara Immerwahr. The next contribution will be devoted to Marie Curie and the following to women from the twentieth century.
Keywords: women and chemistry, eighteenth century, nineteenth century
Little has been written about the exquisite passion of discovering. This has been the main driving force of the greatest scientists — with the masculine gender — that have been in the world. But what happened with the participation of women? Does science have male gender? It seems it has, but although a careful examination of history reveals not equity, there is certainly an active participation of women in the field of science, despite the open hostility of the majority of their contemporary men.
In this editorial we will take a brief walk through the lives of some of the first of them, from BC, until the seventeenth century. We will start with Tapputi, perhaps the first performer of pharmacy, after her we will deal with some alchemists of the early centuries of our era, as Cleopatra and Mary the Jewess, and then we will move to later alchemists, as Isabella Cortese and Mary Sydney Herbert. We will finish with Marie le Jars de Gournay, Margaret Cavendish and Marie Meurdrac, women living before the arrival of modern chemistry with Lavoisier and his wife Marie Anne, that will be the topic of the second part of this study. Marie Meurdrac published the opus La chymie charitable et facile en faveur des dames, a milestone, being the first work devoted to chemistry for women written by a woman. Her recipes are still used today in beauty parlors.
KEYWORDS: women and chemistry, pharmacy, alchemy, antiquity