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Dear Colleagues, The July IHPST newsletter is now available on the web at: http://ihpst.net/newsletters<http://ihpst.net/newsletters/>/ Item #1 is the first President's Column from Peter Heering. Among other things, the column has information about the creation of an Advisory Board for Science & Education journal. Item #2 contains the contents of 'Science & Education' journal Vol.22 No.7. It is a thematic issue on "Philosophy, Chemistry and Education". It contains 18 articles in 312 pages, and is guest edited by Sibel Erduran. CONTENTS: SIBEL ERDURAN / Philosophy, Chemistry and Education: An Introduction The Nature of Chemical Knowledge and Chemical Education ANDREA WOODY / How is the Ideal Gas Law Explanatory? EMMA TOBIN / Chemical Laws, Idealization and Approximation AGUSTIN ADURIZ-BRAVO / A 'Semantic' Conception of Scientific Models for Chemistry Education JOSÉ ANTONIO CHAMIZO / A New Characterization of Models and Modelling in Chemistry Teaching MERCÉ IZQUIERDO-AYMERICH / School Chemistry: An Historical and Philosophical Approach Integrating Chemical Epistemology in Chemical Education MICAH NEWMAN / Emergence and Supervenience: Keeping the "Manifest Image" Separate from, but Connected to, the "Scientific Image" PIERRE LAZSLO / Speaking Chemistry MARIAM THALOS / The Lens of Chemistry MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ-GONZÁLEZ / Idealization in Chemistry: Pure Substance and Laboratory Product EBRU KAYA & SIBEL ERDURAN / Integrating Epistemological Perspectives on Chemistry in Chemical Education: The Cases of Concept Duality, Chemical Language, and Structural Explanations VICENTE TALANQUER / School Chemistry: The Need for Transgression Practices and Values of Chemistry: Educational Applications JOSEPH E. EARLEY Sr. / A New 'Idea of Nature' for Chemical Education ANDONI GARRITZ / Teaching the Philosophical Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Chemistry through Controversies MARCOS ANTONIO PINTO RIBEIRO & DUARTE COSTA PEREIRA / Constitutive Pluralism of Chemistry: Thought Planning, Curriculum, Epistemological and Didactic Orientations VELI-MATTI VESTERINEN, MAIJA AKSELA & JARI LAVONEN / Quantitative Analysis of Representations of Nature of Science in Textbooks Using Framework of Analysis Based on Philosophy of Chemistry AMPARO VILCHES & DANIEL GIL-PÉREZ / Creating a Sustainable Future: Some Philosophical and Educational Considerations for Chemistry Teaching JESPER SJÖSTRÖM / Towards Bildung-oriented Chemistry Education The above articles can be downloaded at: http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/1573-1901 Item #3(h) is a note about seeking a new Book Review Editor. A/Professor Michael R. Matthews School of Education University of New South Wales Sydney 2052 Australia [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Editor Science & Education http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/science+education/journal/11191 President, Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission of DHST/DLMPS of IUHPS www.idtc-iuhps.org<http://www.idtc-iuhps.org/>