Article ID: CBB104800390

The Periodic System and the Nature of Science: The History of the Periodic System in Spanish and Norwegian Secondary School Textbooks (2019)

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This essay analyses 31 science and chemistry textbooks from Spain and Norway with respect to their presentations of the history of the periodic system and what these presentations can teach students about the Nature of Science (NOS). The analysis is based on the SOURCE framework, where each letter in SOURCE represents an element from the history of science and corresponding attributes of NOS. Our comparative analysis reveals large differences in the role of history of chemistry between the Spanish and Norwegian teaching contexts, and similar differences in their inclusion of historical aspects in curricula and textbooks. We argue that the lack of references to women, to errors and to failures in the history of the periodic system represents missed opportunities to discuss chemistry as a tentative, collective and socio-cultural enterprise.

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Authors & Contributors
Mainz, Vera V.
Ghibaudi, Elena
Scerri, Eric R.
Giunta, Carmen J.
Girolami, Gregory S.
Mebrahtu, Gebrekidan
Concepts
Chemistry
Chemical elements
Periodic system of the elements; periodic table
Classification
Education, Chemical
Terminology and nomenclature
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Ethiopia
Scotland
Spain
Portugal
Germany
Institutions
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
UNESCO
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