Building the structural concepts of chemistry: some considerations from educational research
One of my publications is:
Taber, K. S. (2001) Building the structural concepts of chemistry: some considerations from educational research, Chemistry Education: Research and Practice in Europe, 2 (2), pp.123-158. doi:10.1039/B1RP90014E
This is published in the free access journal Chemistry Education: Research and Practice (published and sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry) and can be downloaded from: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2001/rp/b1rp90014e
Contents:
- INTRODUCTION: CONSTRUCTING CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE
- A constructivist perspective on learning science
- What's special about learning chemical concepts?
- What's special about alternative conceptions in chemistry?
- LEARNERS' DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING ABOUT STRUCTURE IN CHEMISTRY
- Transferring between the molecular and the molar
- Learning about atomic structure
- Learning about molecular structure
- Molecular orbitals
- Learning about lattice structures
- Macromolecular solids
- Ionic bonding
- Metallic bonding
- Intermolecular bonding
- SOME PEDAGOGIC OBSTACLES TO LEARNING ABOUT CHEMICAL STRUCTURE
- An atomic ontology
- The over-generalisation of the octet rule
- A dichotomous classification of bonding
- Ionic bonding understood by analogy with covalent bonding
- Pre-occupation with ion formation
- Social chemistry?
- RESEARCH-BASED PRACTICE: SOME ADVICE TO CURRICULUM PLANNERS, AUTHORS AND TEACHERS
