Chemistry Teacher International, Best Practices in Chemistry Education
Editor-in-Chief: Jan Apotheker, and Iwona Maciejowska
The first issue of Chemistry Teacher International was published in July 2019, perhaps as an unexpected 100 anniversary present for IUPAC! Planned a few years ago and announced in Chemistry International Apr 2018 (p. 38, https://doi.org/10.1515/ci-2018-0217), the project has taken a bit longer than expected to get the first issue out, and the second issue will be published in February 2020. For this open access journal project, the Committee on Chemistry Education of IUPAC is cooperating with the Division of Chemical Education of EuChemS, and working together with De Gruyter. Open access is an important factor. It means that teachers in schools are also able to access the articles. No expensive subscription rate is needed to read, print, and use the articles.
Publication costs are kept low and articles are published for $150 while IUPAC and De Gruyter are funding the journal for the first two years.
The first ten articles give a broad overview of projects in teaching chemistry. One group of articles deals with mathematical problems that students face when working in chemistry. These have been presented earlier at an online conference, the ConfChem Fall 2018, run by the ACS CHED Committee on Computers in Chemical Education.
The second issue of CTI contains a selection of papers presented of the 14th European Conference on Research in Chemical Education (ECRICE 2018) held in Warsaw, Poland on 2-6 September 2018 and organized by the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Warsaw and the Division of Chemical Education of EuChemS. Sponsored by ECRIRE, the issue was compiled in cooperation with the conference organizer and guest editor Krzysztof Miecznikowski.
With the publication of the first volume, a milestone has been reached. It is now important that the continuity of Chemistry Teacher International is insured. In order to do that, regional editors in different parts of the world can help in obtaining new articles for the journal, sharing good practices from all parts of the world. In 2019, major events pertinent to chemistry education were successfully held: 8th International Conference for Network for Inter-Asian Chemistry Educators (NICE, https://www.8thnice.org/), the 8th European Variety in University Chemistry Education (Eurovariety, https://www.monash.edu/eurovariety-2019), and the African Conference on Research in Chemistry Education (ACRICE, http://chemsociety.org.ng/acricecsnconference/). These conferences should be sources for articles for Chemistry Teacher International.
In 2020, a special issue on polymer chemistry will be published in September 2020, celebrating the centenary of polymer science marked this year by Staudinger’s landmark paper published in 1920 “Über Polymerisation” (Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. 53(6): 1073-1085; https://doi.org/10.1002/cber.19200530627)
2020 is also the year for the main biennial International Conference on Chemistry Education ICCE 2020 which will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, 13-17 July. Inspired by the vision of Nelson Mandela who said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” the event will seed a CTI issue to be released early 2021.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cti
Conference imPACt—2019 in print
Regularly published in IUPAC journal is the work arising from authoritative lectures presented at IUPAC endorsed conferences, symposia and workshops. In 2019, papers from the following conferences were published:
The 22nd International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry (ICPC, 8-13July 2018) published in Jan and March 2019
The 17th International Conference on Polymers and Organic Chemistry (POC, 3-7 June 2018) published in March and June 2019
The 7th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (ICGC-7, 2-5 Oct 2017) published in May 2019
The 16th International IUPAC Conference on High Temperature Materials Chemistry (HTMC-XVI, 2-6 July 2018) published in June and November 2019
The 29th International Carbohydrate Symposium (ICS-29, 14–19 July 2018) published in July and September 2019
The 18th International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium Processes (ISSP-18, 15–20 July 2018), published in Aug 2019
The 2nd International Conference on Global Challenges in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD2018, 25-27June 2018), published in Aug 2019
The 1st International Conference on Chemistry for Beauty and Health (13–16 June 2018), published in September 2019
The 15th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences (EuAsC2S-15, 5–8 September 2018, published in October 2019
The13th International Conference on Solid State Chemistry (SSC-2018, 16–21 September 2018), published in November 2019
The 4th International Conference on the Periodic Table, 26–28 July 2019), published in November 2019
The IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, special issues in celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table and the 100th anniversary of IUPAC, published in February and April 2019
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead - Full issue pdf
- President's Column
- All on the Same Team
- Features
- Elements of Sports: From IYPT 2019 to Tokyo 20201
- Anti-doping: Two Scientists’ Points of View
- Pure and Applied Chemistry Special Topic Series
- A Global Discourse on the Future of Chemistry
- The Inaugural IYCN General Assembly
- From Young Attendees to Young Actors: The “Young Chemists Symposium” at IUPAC2019
- The IUPAC100 Global Women’s Breakfast Empowering Women in Chemistry
- IUPAC Wire
- IUPAC recognized by OPCW
- Chemical Weapons Convention Amended
- IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists—Call for Nominations
- BIPM and IUPAC formalize a long-standing cooperation
- Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie—Call for Nominations
- DSM Bright Science Award 2020 in materials sciences—Call for Nominations
- 2020— International Year of Plant Health
- Project Place
- Impact of Objective Analysis of Clinical Trial Failures on Drug Discovery and Development Processes
- Basic Classification and Definitions of Polymerization Reactions
- Henry’s Law constants
- Experimental methods and data evaluation procedures for the determination of radical copolymerization reactivity ratios
- Enhanced recognition and encoding of stereoconfiguration by InChI tools
- Nomenclature and associated terminology for inorganic nanoscale particles
- IUPAC Provisional Recommendations
- Making an imPACt
- An inter-comparison of isotopic composition of neon via chemical assays and thermal analyses (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Definition of the chalcogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)
- Critically evaluated propagation rate coefficients for radical polymerizations: acrylates and vinyl acetate in bulk (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Experiments on adsorption at hydrous metal oxide surfaces using attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy (ATRIRS) (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Chemistry Teacher International, Best Practices in Chemistry Education
- Conference Call
- Spectroscopy and new horizons
- Solution Chemistry in Action!
- Flying Chemistry Educator Program in Ulang Bataar, Mongolia
- Innovative Chemistry for Environmental Enhancement
- Caribbean Celebrations
- Where 2B & Y
- Mark Your Calendar
Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead - Full issue pdf
- President's Column
- All on the Same Team
- Features
- Elements of Sports: From IYPT 2019 to Tokyo 20201
- Anti-doping: Two Scientists’ Points of View
- Pure and Applied Chemistry Special Topic Series
- A Global Discourse on the Future of Chemistry
- The Inaugural IYCN General Assembly
- From Young Attendees to Young Actors: The “Young Chemists Symposium” at IUPAC2019
- The IUPAC100 Global Women’s Breakfast Empowering Women in Chemistry
- IUPAC Wire
- IUPAC recognized by OPCW
- Chemical Weapons Convention Amended
- IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists—Call for Nominations
- BIPM and IUPAC formalize a long-standing cooperation
- Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie—Call for Nominations
- DSM Bright Science Award 2020 in materials sciences—Call for Nominations
- 2020— International Year of Plant Health
- Project Place
- Impact of Objective Analysis of Clinical Trial Failures on Drug Discovery and Development Processes
- Basic Classification and Definitions of Polymerization Reactions
- Henry’s Law constants
- Experimental methods and data evaluation procedures for the determination of radical copolymerization reactivity ratios
- Enhanced recognition and encoding of stereoconfiguration by InChI tools
- Nomenclature and associated terminology for inorganic nanoscale particles
- IUPAC Provisional Recommendations
- Making an imPACt
- An inter-comparison of isotopic composition of neon via chemical assays and thermal analyses (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Definition of the chalcogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)
- Critically evaluated propagation rate coefficients for radical polymerizations: acrylates and vinyl acetate in bulk (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Experiments on adsorption at hydrous metal oxide surfaces using attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy (ATRIRS) (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Chemistry Teacher International, Best Practices in Chemistry Education
- Conference Call
- Spectroscopy and new horizons
- Solution Chemistry in Action!
- Flying Chemistry Educator Program in Ulang Bataar, Mongolia
- Innovative Chemistry for Environmental Enhancement
- Caribbean Celebrations
- Where 2B & Y
- Mark Your Calendar
