Comparison of Chemistry education Curriculum with Secondary School Chemistry (Second Course)

Document Type : Original research

Authors

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran

2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

Abstract

The field of chemistry education is one of the multidisciplinary trends that are defined in order to train a chemistry teacher for the second round of high school, which aims to acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies required for student-teachers. Teachers are the most important factor in preparing students in any education system, so teacher education reform is one of the necessities to improve the quality of the education system, including these reforms, revision of the education curriculum so that the teachers can acquire the necessary competence to teach. This article examines the topics discussed in the high school chemistry textbooks in the second round with approved topics in the field of chemistry education and its research method is descriptive-comparative in which it first examines specialized courses in the field of chemistry education. Then, the mentioned topics are compared with the topics mentioned in the textbooks of the second high school chemistry, and based on this comparison, the important topics in the chemistry education courses are identified.

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