%0 Journal Article
%T PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
%A Georgios TSAPARLIS
%J Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society, Section C: Chemical Education
%P 1-30
%@ 2459-1734
%D 2016
%R -
%X As an established research field, chemistry education, is relatively a young one ¨C its origins go back only to the 1970s. The present author has started his engagement with chemistry education since the late 1970s, and as a consequence he has followed the progress of the field over the years. This paper will focus on the challenges (the ¡°problems¡±) confronting a teacher of chemistry, and on suggestions for solutions as these follow from the findings of educational research, with emphasis on the author¡¯s own research studies. These studies are informed by most of the theoretical and practical tools of chemistry education, such as Piagetian theory, the alternative conceptions or students¡¯ ideas or students¡¯ misconceptions, scientific literacy, context-based learning, cooperative learning, philosophy and history of chemistry, and the effect of the laboratory and new educational technologies. The following are the topics of the reviewed work: teaching and learning science concepts in high school; instructional methodology; secondary chemistry curricula; structural concepts; higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS); problem solving in science, and chemistry in particular; and, last but not least, relevant chemistry education.
%K Theories of science education
%K big ideas in chemistry education
%K instructional methodology
%K relevant chemistry education
%K secondary chemistry curricula
%K structural concepts
%K higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS)
%K problem solving
%U http://dergipark.gov.tr/jotcsc/issue/30533/330309