The Unit of Chemistry Teacher Education
Department of Chemistry
The Oldest LUMA-science classroom, ChemistryLab Gadolin turns 10 years. In honor of the jubilee year, an anniversary book “Collaborative Science Education at the University of Helsinki: ChemistryLab Gadolin – a Science Lab as an Inspiring Environment for Learning, Development and Research Since 2008.”
The Unit of Chemistry Teacher Education at the Department of Chemistry organises education for student teachers studying chemistry as a major or minor subject, primary school student teachers, postgraduate students in chemistry education, as well as subject and primary school teachers. The unit has been in operation at the Department of Chemistry since 2001.
In honor of the 15th Anniversary of the Unit of Chemistry Teacher Education in Department of Chemistry, a special issue is published as the latest issue of LUMAT-B journal.
The special issue contains 18 articles about the chemistry education research carried out at the University of Helsinki.
Chemistry teaching and learning is one of the areas of focus in research in the Department of Chemistry in the University of Helsinki. Research creates a base for supporting the understanding of chemistry and for the development of good-quality chemistry teaching from basic education to higher education and to teacher education. With the use of research based teacher education in chemistry, we support chemistry teaching and its development communally.
The writers of these articles are PhDs, who have graduated from our unit, and our doctoral students. In the articles they highlight their own research and describe briefly the central concepts and topics of chemistry education that relates to their research. The writers also bring out how teachers are able to exploit this new information in their chemistry teaching.
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