Textbook sets through the perspective of the orientation of the intended chemistry curriculum for primary and secondary schools

Hrast, Špela (author), Ferk Savec, Vesna (author)

Textbooks have a central role in chemistry education and represent the intended chemistry curriculum at the national level. This paper focuses on analysing the intended chemistry curriculum as represented by the visual representations and the activities for students in the textbook sets in relation to the topics of the Slovenian National Chemistry Curric-ulum both at the primary and secondary school levels. The analysis involved all textbook sets approved by the national representatives for the 2021/2022 school year. The results revealed that in most of the curriculum topics in the analysed Slovenian chemistry textbook sets, the curriculum orientation structure of the discipline prevails and the everyday life orientation is present for both primary and secondary schools. To improve the relevance of the textbook sets for students, the currently rare presence of history of chemistry,environmental orientation,and technology and industry orientation and the lack of the use of socio-scientific orientation should be overcome. It would be valuable if further studies in textbook sets would also address the intended chemistry curriculum from a more holistic perspective.

• Language: English
• Keywords: intended chemistry curriculum, curriculum orientation, activity for students, visual representation, chemistry textbook set
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 143-160
• Numbering: Vol. 71, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-155255
• UDC: 37.091.6:54
• ISSN on article: 1580-3155
• DOI: 10.17344/acsi.2024.8628
• COBISS.SI-ID: 189909251
• Publication date in RUL: 22.03.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta chimica slovenica
• Shortened title: Acta chim. slov.
• Publisher: Slovensko kemijsko društvo, =Slovenian Chemical Society
• ISSN: 1580-3155
• COBISS.SI-ID: 21870085

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Učbeniki imajo osrednjo vlogo pri poučevanju in učenju kemije in predstavljajo predvideni učni načrt za kemijo na nacionalni ravni. Prispevek se osredinja na analizo predvidenega učnega načrta za kemijo, kot ga predstavljajo vizualne reprezentacije in aktivnosti za učence oz. dijake v učbeniških setih v povezavi z vsebinskimi sklopi nacionalnega učnega načrta za kemijo za osnovno in srednjo šolo. Analiza, ki je vključevala s strani nacionalnih predstavnikov potrjene učbeniške komplete za šolsko leto 2021/2022, temelji na šestih osnovnih usmeritvah kemijskega učnega načrta, ki jih je opredelil Eilks s sodelavci. Rezultati so pokazali, da v analiziranih slovenskih učbeniških kompletih za kemijo tako za osnovno kot za srednjo šolo pri večini vsebinskih sklopov prevladuje usmerjenost v strukturo discipline, prisotna pa je tudi usmerjenost v vsakdanje življenje. Za namen izboljšanja relevantnosti učbeniških kompletov za učence je potrebno preseči trenutno redko prisotnost usmerjenosti v zgodovino kemije, okolje, tehnologijo in industrijo ter socio-naravoslovni kontekst, npr. z vključevanjem večje interakcije kemije, tehnologije in družbe. Dragoceno bi bilo, če bi nadaljnje raziskave naslavljale predvideni učni načrt za kemijo tudi z bolj celostnega vidika.

• Keywords: učbeniški kompleti, osnovne šole, srednje šole, kemija, učbeniki