Imagination; Where Science Formulate Different Hypothesis And Explanations Helping The Understanding Of The Language And Soul Of Chemistry

• New understanding is realized by creative learning where students are involved in meaningful learning, ownership of learning, control of learning processes and innovation. In order to produce learning situations where creative learning is achieved, teachers have to create trustful atmospheres where students are allowed to think and discuss without critical evaluation from the teacher. It is also important to create practical exercises in which theoretical models are processed and connected to observations and subject matter. During several years we have developed courses in science with the goal to promote students to become independent learners and explorers out of their own prerequisites as future professional teachers. We have investigated different methods and designs of teaching; conceptual understanding and conceptual change theory, discourse-based understanding and Dewey’s view of learning. In this study we are focusing on exploring the variation of students creative learning through a chemistry course. Permitting the particulate subject matter of chemistry to demonstrate as universal dramaturgical framework for conceptual learning and embodied experience. Chemistry involves considerable amounts of abstract conceptual thinking, molecular understanding and language. The focus of our study is the exploration of how conceptual abstract molecular understanding of phenomena in nature emerges through different teaching approaches, and imagination transformed into universal understanding, which provides the students with a sense of empowerment and a positive outlook on their future profession as teachers.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

knowledge construction

aesthetic learning process

reflection

Environmental Studies

Miljövetenskapliga studier

Utbildningsvetenskapliga studier

Studies in the Educational Sciences

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)