@conference{
author = "Trivić, Dragica and Milanović, Vesna D. and Džinović, Milanka",
year = "2017",
abstract = "During the previous two decades we established the practice to invite the experts
from different fields as guests of the Chemistry Didactics classes at the Faculty of
Chemistry University of Belgrade. We believed that this practice would help students
to develop their communication and collaborative skills with experts from other
disciplines. Moreover, it helps them to think from different perspectives about topics
that could be relevant for youth education, their future professional orientation, and
society, and enables them to better prepare for the planning and realization of
interdisciplinary approach in their future classrooms.
In this presentation we will describe a workshop which was realized in cooperation
with geographers. This workshop encompassed the students, future chemistry
teachers, at their final years of study. The workshop had several parts. An important
part related to the production of questions which could be answered through the
cooperation of chemists and geographers. After that the importance of these
questions was discussed within the framework of individual, societal and vocational
relevance (Eilks and Hofstein, 2015) related to the youth education and their future
decision-making in everyday life, better integration into society and professional
orientation. The final part was associated with the formulation of topic that could be
realized by interdisciplinary approach.
This workshop can serve as a model of work for the future chemistry teachers, of how
they can involve different specialists in their chemistry classes in order to make their
lessons more relevant to youth.
References:
Eilks, I. and Hofstein, A. (2015). From some historical reflections on the issue of relevance of chemistry education towards a model and an advance organizer – a prologue In Eilks I. and Hofstein A. (Eds.), Relevant Chemistry Education From Theory to Practice (2−10). Roterdam: Sense Publishers.",
publisher = "Belgarde : Serbian Chemical Society",
journal = "University Chemistry Education for the Challenges of Contemporary Society : book of abstracts / 7th EuroVariety - European Variety in University Chemistry Education, Belgrade, 28-30 June 2017",
title = "Guests of the chemistry didactics classes - a step towards planning interdisciplinary topics",
pages = "108-109",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_cherry_5102"
}