Chemistry International
Vol. 24, No. 5
September 2002
IUPAC News
Chemical
Education International
A couple
of years ago, the International Newsletter on Chemical Education (INCE)
was transformed into an electronic medium, designed as its paper parent
to be accessible to the majority of the worldwide community of teaching
chemists. Now known as Chemical
Education International (CEI), the newsletter of the Committee
on Chemistry Education (CCE) only appears on the Internet and offers
a variety of articles, including the following:
- Reports
on activities of CCE and its members, such as projects
- News
and reports on events held or supported by IUPAC and related organizations,
such as ICCE, CHEMRAWN, etc.
- News
and reports written or communicated by a CCE member on chemical education
in member countries of international interest
- General
articles on chemical education written or recommended by a CCE member
that meet the international interest of readers, such as "Interview
with Nobel Laureate," facts and figures, opinions, and essays
As the
work of CCE transcends the subdisciplines of chemistry and international
borders, the current Committee continues to be interested in, and supportive
of, a variety of devicesconferences, reports, newsletters, etc.for
the dissemination of its efforts and the efforts of others interested
in chemical education. While modernizing the creation, production, and
distribution of the CCE newsletter by making it a online publication,
the Committee still does recognize that a cohort of teaching chemists
exist in areas of the world that currently are not served by the Internet.
Incidentally, these areas were also difficult to reach with the original
printed INCE; however, it is hoped that access to the Internet will
continue to expand, making this new electronic newsletter more widely
accessible.
The intended
readership includes mostly schoolteachers and professors interested
in chemical education, and, most recently, students. A series of interviews
with Nobel laureates in chemistry is specially targeted at this new
group of readers. The recently released third interview in that series
is with professor Shirakawa. Interviews with professors Rowland and
Kroto appeared in previous issues. Other articles in the current issue
include a review by A. F. M. Fahmy and J. J. Lagowski of the "Systemic
Approach to Teaching and Learning Chemistry in Egypt" and a report
by Y. Takeuchi on the status of science education in Japan.
> www.iupac.org/publications/cei/vol3
The chief
editor, Masato M. Ito, intends to use, as before, the voluntary efforts
of CCE members who should have easy access to national information and
who could benefit from a broader and international dissemination. Ito
also invites relevant opinions and essays from all sources. E-mail:
<[email protected]>
www.iupac.org/publications/cei