How to motivate students to learn chemistry?
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | Current chemistry is developing rapidly and strongly affects human everyday lives. For this reason, chemistry is considered to be an important part of education for the current and future population. There is also expert consensus that science education (including chemistry) should be a compulsory part of the education of all children. But according to research findings (for example PISA), chemistry belongs to the least favorite school subjects. Because the socio-economic success of Europe 2020 depends on education of new generation, new ways of chemistry teaching/learning which should prepare today’s children for adult roles as citizens, employees, managers, entrepreneurs, and parents, are sought. So, a very important question arises how to motivate students to learn chemistry. In the presentation, the most important factors influencing student interest in chemistry and ways how to support student engagement in learning chemistry were presented. Great attention has been paid to innovative teaching methods of chemistry and also innovative ways of teacher education. |