Laboratory Practices in Chemistry Teaching: Contributions from Two Graduate Theses
Keywords:
practical activities, instructional materials, laboratory choreography, PCK, environmental chemistryAbstract
This article presents two theses in chemistry education focused on practical and experimental activities developed in two different educational contexts. The first study is situated in technical secondary education and analyzes didactic materials for Environmental Chemistry. It characterizes the degree of problematization of the activities, the scientific practices promoted, and their links to professional incumbencies, through documentary analysis, checklists, and specific analytical tools (the benzene ring and Brandon’s matrix). The second study examines practical classes of first-year university Inorganic Chemistry, reconstructing teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (both declared and enacted) using ReCo instruments, classroom observations, and discourse analysis. It also incorporates the notion of laboratory choreography to describe the organization of roles and interactions. Finally, contributions are identified to support a better understanding of didactic mediations in laboratory settings.
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