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

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly

ISSN

0026-9247

e-ISSN

1434-4475

Svazek periodika

154

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

9

Stát vydavatele periodika

AT - Rakouská republika

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

957-965

Kód UT WoS článku

001028718100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85164472063