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Journal of Industrial and Environmental Chemistry| Volume: 3
February 18-19, 2019 | Paris, France
Joint Event
Green Chemistry and Technology
8
th
World Congress on
International Conference on
Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Notes:
S
cience education including chemistry is undergoing changes
due to its increasing importance these days, as it faces
economic and social challenges. It is possible to register these
changes in most European countries as well as the USA. Society
requires to prepare the younger generation for the 21
st
century.
We need a workforce with generally higher levels of STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) literacy,
as well as a sufficient number of highly gifted individuals
entering scientific and engineering careers. To carry out these
requirements it is necessary to change way of education and
to find its appropriate content. Experts are trying to define
a new paradigm of science education. But in order to be
successful, important curricular changes have to be accepted
by all of the stakeholders in education: students, their parents,
politicians and especially by teachers, who should implement
these curricular changes into practice. We will present research
findings of the Czech Republic concerning the identification of
views on science education, what opinions on current science
education are held by stakeholders and what priority should be
preferred in their opinion. The appropriate content of school
chemistry and innovative methods of teaching chemistry will
be discussed.
Speaker Biography
Eva Trnova is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education Masaryk University in the
Czech Republic. She graduated in chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk
University. She has completed her PhD in chemistry education. She has been engaged
in chemistry education for a long time and she has published monographs and articles
in journals about this issue. She has dealt with problems connected with curriculum
for chemistry and chemistry teachers’ continuous professional development (CPD) in
all levels of education. She is a member of the Hands on Science and the International
Council of Associations for Science Education. She has participated on organisation
of several international conferences. She has been involved in many international
projects dealing with research of chemistry education and the development of science
education (e.g. PROFILES, Project of SFP, STAR).
e:
trnova@ped.muni.czEva Trnova
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Changes in chemistry education for the 21
st
century
Eva Trnova, J Ind Environ Chem 2019, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4066/2591-7331-C1-007