One of my publications is:
de Jong, O., & Taber, K. S. (2014). The Many Faces of High School Chemistry. In N. Lederman & S. K. Abell (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Science Education, Volume 2 (pp. 457-480). New York: Routledge.
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Contents:
- WAVES OF CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM REFORM
- Reform in the 1960s
- Reform in the 1980s
- Reform in the 1990s/2000s
- CONTEXTS IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
- Domains of Origin
- Relationship between Contexts and Concepts
- Teachers' Views on Context-based Chemistry Teaching
- Effects of Context-based Chemistry Teaching on Students' Understanding and Motivation
- Four-phase Model of Context-based Chemistry Teaching
- Empowering Chemistry Teachers for Modern Context-based Teaching
- MODELS: CHEMICAL PHENOMENA, CHEMICAL CONCEPTS, AND THE MOLECULAR REALM
- The Nature of Models
- Learners' Notions of Models and Modelling
- Anthropomorphism in Chemistry Learning
- The Centrality of Substance, and the Epistemic Significance of Particles
- The Centrality of Particle Models in Learning Chemistry
- 'Particle' as Analogy
- Common Misunderstanding 1: Misjudging Scale
- Common Misunderstanding 2: Misjudging Type
- Mediating the Multiple Meanings of Chemistry
- Empowering Chemistry Teachers to Teach about Models and Modelling
- INTRODUCING MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS
- Multiple Meanings
- Explanatory Analysis of Students' Conceptual Difficulties
- Modern Approaches to Teaching Chemical Reactions
- A Curriculum Dilemma: Early or Late Introduction of the Submicro Meaning of Chemical Reactions
- A Possible 'Way Out': Introducing a Meso Domain of Meaning
- Empowering Prospective Chemistry Teachers for Teaching Multiple
- Meanings
- INTRODUCING MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF CHEMICAL BONDING
- The ('Imaginary') Nature of Chemical Bonding
- Teaching Bonding as a Progression of Models
- The Immaterial Nature of Chemical Bonding
- The Nature of Atomic Structure
- Basic Models of Bonding
- Student Learning Difficulties
- The Octet Framework
- Adopting Orbital Models
- LOOKING TO THE NEAR FUTURE OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
- Directions for New Research
- Coherent Innovations in Chemistry Education
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