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Dear Colleagues,
The July IHPST newsletter is now available on the web at:
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
Editor
Science & Education
http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/science+education/journal/11191
President, Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission of DHST/DLMPS of IUHPS