College-level chemistry education: reflections based on core organic chemistry concepts

Química Nova

Rodrigues, Salomão Bento de Vasconcelos¹  Quadros, Ana Luiza de¹  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil¹  Da-Silva, Dayse Carvalho¹ 

关键词: higher education;    essential concepts;    Organic Chemistry.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-40422011001000019

学科分类：化学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Quimica

【 摘 要 】

We live in a context in which knowledge develops continuously and rapidly. This generates a social dynamics that demands constant adaptation from those living in society and also from educational institutions. Education for this new society needs to be rethought. Universities, anchored in tradition, still use a transmission/reception model of education. A data-collecting instrument applied to undergraduate chemistry students at the end of the course in organic chemistry investigated some concepts essential to the education of a chemist, such as interatomic and intermolecular interactions and Lewis structure. We observed that students have difficulty dealing with these concepts, and we believe that this is related to the type of class they had/have and to the way the concepts are presented in the college textbooks.

【 授权许可】

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