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Research: Science and Education
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Identifying Deficiencies in the Environmental Chemistry Educational Literature
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Thi Hoa Tran, and Stephen W. Bigger
School of Life Sciences and Technology, Victoria University, Melbourne City, Victoria 8001, Australia
Tony Kruger
School of Education, Victoria University, Melbourne City, Victoria 8001, Australia
John D. Orbell
School of Life Sciences and Technology, Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne City, Victoria 8001, Australia
Saman Buddhadasa and Sebastian Barone
Australian Government Analytical Laboratories, South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia
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December 2001
Vol. 78 No. 12
p. 1693
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A survey of environmental chemistry laboratory experiments published during the period 1969-2000 in the mainstream chemical education journals, The Journal of Chemical Education and Education in Chemistry, was conducted. The experiments were categorized as being related to the environmental domains of air, water, or soil. Using the same timeframe, a similar survey was carried out for commonly used environmental chemistry textbooks, assessing the relative number of pages devoted to the same areas. The data obtained from both analyses indicate that the area of soil is seriously underrepresented in the environmental chemistry educational literature. This suggests a need to develop more environmental chemistry educational material (in the form of published laboratory experiments and textbook material) related to soil chemistry and soil contamination. To provide a basis for optimizing the level of integration in the design of such experiments, the publications surveyed were categorized according to how they integrate the four traditional subfields of chemistry --organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical.
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Tran, Thi Hoa; Bigger, Stephen W.; Kruger, Tony; Orbell, John D.; Buddhadasa, Saman; Barone, Sebastian. J. Chem. Educ. 2001 78 1693.
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Chemical Education Research; Chemical Information; Environmental Chemistry; Soil Chemistry; Teaching/Learning Theory/Practice; Textbooks
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August 31, 2005
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