Chemophobia and practical chemistry: the laboratory as a place of origin or, on the contrary, suppression of the fear of chemistry?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00706-023-03098-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00706-023-03098-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Chemophobia and practical chemistry: the laboratory as a place of origin or, on the contrary, suppression of the fear of chemistry?

Original language description

From the perspective of the general public, there are a number of ways to describe the doing of science, e.g. experiments, scientific inquiry and laboratory work. In the case of chemistry, however, these activities are united by a single site of performance, the chemical laboratory. Indeed, as early as 1761, Macquer states: &quot;whoever would become a chemist, must indispensably have a laboratory.&quot; However, another necessary prerequisite for the successful practice of chemistry is a proper theoretical and practical education. While the theory remains with chemists for the time being, experimental teaching is now in jeopardy. However, limiting laboratory instruction due to perceived excessive cost would ultimately damage chemists&apos; identity and weaken their defences against chemophobia. Hands-on teaching normally associated with the verification of chemical theory in practice, accompanied by an intense dialogue between teacher and student, will not be able to act as a corrective to hostile attitudes towards chemistry. Moreover, its absence may reinforce chemophobia. As a result, the chemistry community may be confronted with a far more dangerous, potentiated chemophobia. The latter would be all the more dangerous because it would operate from within, as a lack of awareness of one&apos;s own merit, contribution and self-worth.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly

ISSN

0026-9247

e-ISSN

1434-4475

Volume of the periodical

154

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

957-965

UT code for WoS article

001028718100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85164472063