Offering Community Engagement Activities to Increase Chemistry Knowledge and Confidence for Teachers and Students

Autor/inn/en	Sewry, Joyce D.; Glover, Sarah R.; Harrison, Timothy G.; Shallcross, Dudley E.; Ngcoza, Kenneth M.
Titel	Offering Community Engagement Activities to Increase Chemistry Knowledge and Confidence for Teachers and Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Chemical Education, 91 (2014) 10, S.1611-1617 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9584
DOI	10.1021/ed400495m
Schlagwörter	Science Instruction; Chemistry; Foreign Countries; Knowledge Level; College Science; Service Learning; Teaching Methods; School Community Relationship; Partnerships in Education; College Students; College Faculty; Workshops; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Self Efficacy; Demonstrations (Educational); Science Experiments; College School Cooperation; Elementary School Science; Secondary School Science; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; Hands on Science; Outreach Programs; Clubs; High School Students; Science Laboratories; Program Evaluation; Questionnaires; Focus Groups; Inservice Teacher Education; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Chemie; Ausland; Wissensbasis; Service-Learning; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Demonstrationsexperiment; Demonstrationsmodell; Demonstrationsunterricht; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Jobcoaching; Club; Klub; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Fragebogen; Lehrerfortbildung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Given the emphasis on community engagement in higher education, academic departments need to become more involved in the community. This paper discusses a number of outreach activities undertaken by the chemistry department at Rhodes University, South Africa. The activities range from service learning to community engagement with teachers and school students in partnership with other interested parties. Teachers who attended workshops reported that their subject knowledge and confidence had increased and they were subsequently doing more practical work in lessons. Practical chemistry demonstrations and workshops afforded opportunities for school students to observe or perform chemical experiments and interact with university students. Undergraduate students directly benefitted from involvement in community engagement through the development and implementation of credit-bearing service learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10