Role of chemical societies in addressing educational challenges in the field of chemistry

Abstract

The paper describes the formation and educational work of five foreign Chemical Societies as well as the work of the Serbian Chemical Society. The aim is to indicate, through an analysis of their work, to the potentials in knowledge and experience the societies possess, and on the basis of which they can be partners to the state when creating educational policy in the field of teaching and learning chemistry. The members of the societies are chemists employed in different professional fields, which enables getting a fuller view of the competencies required by labor market and, subsequently, further development of chemistry curricula. The ways in which different societies care for the quality of education, which actions they undertake, from promotion of science among the young, in-service teacher training, activities to enhance chemistry learning, efforts to provide better equipment for schools, development of new curricula to monitoring students' achievements are also presented. The societies, additionally, take special care to inform the members about new developments in science and education through their bulletins and journals.

U radu je prikazano formiranje i rad pet hemijskih društava u svetu, kao i rad Srpskog hemijskog društva na polju obrazovanja. Cilj rada je da se kroz analizu aktivnosti društava ukaže na potencijale u znanju i iskustvu kojim društva raspolažu, na osnovu koga mogu biti partner državi u kreiranju obrazovne politike u oblasti nastave i učenja hemije. Društva čine hemičari uključeni u različite profesionalne delatnosti što omogućava sagledavanje potrebnih kompetencija na tržištu rada i, prema tome, unapređivanje nastavnih programa hemije. U radu je prikazano na koji način različita društva brinu o kvalitetu obrazovanja i koje aktivnosti preduzimaju, od promocije nauke među mladima, stručnog usavršavanja nastavnika, poboljšanja uslova za učenje hemije, obezbeđivanja nastavnih sredstava, kreiranja novih nastavnih programa do praćenja postignuća učenika. Takođe, društva posebno brinu o informisanju članova o novim dostignućima u nauci i obrazovanju kroz časopise društva.