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FORTHCOMING PAPERS The following two papers have been accepted for publication in CERP, and will be included in the next issue (Vol. 4, No. 3, October 2003). They are not included in this issue because of its themed character. •
Learning science through English: An investigation of the vocabulary
skills of native and non-native English speakers in international
schools •
Students' difficulties in understanding of the conservation of matter
in open and closed-system chemical reactions THE CHEMICAL EDUCATOR - WELCOME TO OUR NEW HOME! FROM: Clifford LeMaster, - Editor in Chief, The Chemical Educator, 7154 West State Street #301, Boise, ID 83714 USA; phone 208-440-1866; fax 208-248-2366; e-mail: tce@chemeducator.org We are please to announce our new and final Internet resting stop for The Chemical Educator. Our new URL http://chemeducator.org/ (or http://www.chemeducator.org/) will be an easy to remember Internet address and is no longer dependant on the physical location of our server. Our institutional users may create a direct link to http://chemeducator.org/tceinst/ or use the link from the main page. We have also updated our mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email addresses. This new contact information will provide our nonprofit journal a stable and independent environment in which to serve you - our readers, reviewers, and authors.
Issue No. 1 for 2003 of the Journal of Baltic Science Education (JBSE) has been published. The contents of the issue are as follows: •
Research and development work from the perspective of compiling balanced
curricula for science education, by A. Toldsepp & V.Toots. JBSE is an international academic journal, issued by the Scientific Methodological Centre "Scientia Educologica", Lithuania. It emphasises theoretical, experimental, and methodological studies in the field of science education. Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Vincetas Lamanauskas, e-mail: vincentas.la@takas.lt. For more information see the following Web addresses: http://vingis.ktu.lt/~jbse
The ESERA web site has moved to a new domain: http://www.esera.net/. Note also that the ESERA member list is online again. Information how to access the list can be found at the above site. Finally, PhD students can become ESERA members without any charge for the duration of their PhD. The application form has been adjusted accordingly.
Pierre LASZLO, who has contributed with an invited paper to the May 2002 theme issue of CERAPIE on structural concepts, has published a book with the above title. The book aims at bridging science and culture, and so far has been translated in four languages (besides French and English) (Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese). Publisher is HACHETTE Littératures.
FROM: Dr. Keith S. TABER (Chair, CERG), University of Cambridge Faculty of Education; kst24@cam.ac.uk CERG Lecture 2003 The
Chemical Education Research Group (CERG) is a special interest group
of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the Learned Society for the
chemical sciences and the Professional Body for chemical scientists
in the UK (see http://chemistry.rsc.org/lap/rsccom/dab/educ002.htm). Prof. John Gilbert John Gilbert is currently Professor of Education at The University of Reading and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Science Education. After taking degrees in Chemistry he taught in secondary schools prior to appointments at the Universities of Keele and Surrey, moving to Reading in 1988. His most recent work has been on models and modelling in science education [Gilbert, J. K., Boulter, C. J. (eds.) (2000), Developing models in science education. Dordrecht: Kluwer] and on the use of research in chemical education [Gilbert, J. K., De Jong, O., Justi, R., Treagust, D. F., Van Driel, J. H. (eds.) (2002), Chemical education: Towards research-based practice. Dordrecht: Kluwer]. Broadening chemical education The
number of people who formally study chemistry in the post-compulsory
phase, either for its own sake or as a necessary subsidiary to other
science subjects, remains small. This places the onus of bearing witness
to the cultural value of chemical ideas onto informal chemical education.
This can be taken to include museums and science centres, books, TV,
and the Internet. The strengths and weaknesses of current informal chemical
education will be evaluated and proposals made on the future development
of the field. It will be suggested that formal higher chemical education
can make considerable contributions to realising the considerable potential
identified.
Quality in practice-oriented research in science education
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What are criteria for quality in practice-oriented research in science
education? All contributions will be invited lectures. Suggestions for appropriate contributions are welcome up to summer 2003. Conference dates: 3 - 5 June 2004. Conference language will be English. Venue: University of Dortmund, Building of the Department of Chemistry, Otto-Hahn-Str. 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany. There will be no conference fee, but participants must cover the cost for travelling, accommodation and social events. Conference chair: Prof. Dr. Bernd RALLE and Dr. Ingo EILKS, Department of Chemistry, Didactics of Chemistry I, University of Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Str.6, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany, bralle@pop.uni-dortmund.de, eilks@pop.uni-dortmund.de Further
information will be published on the web at
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