Teaching chemistry as a creative subject

IF 2.6 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Marion E. van Brederode
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Abstract

Chemistry is a creative field focused on exploring new possibilities. However, students rarely look at chemistry as a creative discipline. Therefore, it may be worthwhile to reconsider the way chemistry is taught to younger generations. In this Perspective Paper, creativity as a learning goal is explored and related to goals communicated in chemistry education research. A connection is made to related engineering STEM fields in which the call for creativity has been recognized more than in chemistry education. As in other fields, creative chemists stand out in alternating between creative – and critical thinking, coupled with their field specific knowledge and skills. These skills do not develop in tandem. Probably, it is often not possible, or wise, to address all three goals at the same moment. Assignments that steer to making comparisions are likely to initiatie critical thinking first, assignments aimed at proposing new solutions stimulate creative thinking first. Students' awareness of creative options in their assignments affects their creative learning experience. The mindset students have developed on how science – and their science assessments – should look like could influence their critical – and creative thinking. The creative learning possibilities educators offer, the way they build up their assignments and how they communicate explicitly and implicitly on goals and expectations, could be the key to stimulate chemistry students’ creativity.

作为创造性学科的化学教学
化学是一个创造性的领域,专注于探索新的可能性。然而,学生们很少把化学看作是一门创造性的学科。因此,重新考虑向年轻一代教授化学的方式可能是值得的。本文探讨了创造性作为一种学习目标,并将其与化学教育研究中所传达的目标联系起来。与相关的工程STEM领域建立了联系,在这些领域,对创造力的呼吁比化学教育得到了更多的认可。与其他领域一样,创造性化学家在创造性思维和批判性思维之间的交替中脱颖而出,再加上他们的领域特定知识和技能。这些技能并不是同步发展的。也许,同时解决这三个目标通常是不可能的,或者是不明智的。引导进行比较的作业可能首先激发批判性思维,旨在提出新解决方案的作业首先激发创造性思维。学生在作业中对创造性选择的意识会影响他们的创造性学习体验。学生们已经形成的关于科学——以及他们的科学评估——应该是什么样子的心态可能会影响他们的批判性和创造性思维。教育工作者提供的创造性学习可能性,他们布置作业的方式,以及他们如何就目标和期望进行明示和含蓄的交流,可能是激发化学学生创造力的关键。
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4.80
自引率
26.70%
发文量
64
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: The journal for teachers, researchers and other practitioners in chemistry education.
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