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Research: Science and Education
New Directions in Teaching Chemistry: A Philosophical and Pedagogical Basis
J. N. Spencer
Department of Chemistry, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
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April 1999
Vol. 76 No. 4
p. 566
Abstract
Cognitive and classroom research has provided the teachers of chemistry with a basis on which new pedagogies can be developed. The staples of instruction in the past were based on a behaviorist model, but the paradigm is slowly shifting to a constructivist model. Active involvement of the student in the classroom and laboratory is creating a change in the traditional roles of both student and instructor. What seemed to work in the past is not as effective today, when more students with different learning styles populate our institutions. The learning environment and classroom activities play important roles in student interest and comprehension.
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 Spencer, James N. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 566.
*  Keywords
 Chemical Education Research; Teaching / Learning Aids; History / Philosophy; Teaching/Learning Theory/Practice
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Last Updated:		 June 14, 1999
June 23, 2005
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