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Chemical
Education International, Vol. 1, No. 1, 11-14, Published in August
31, 2000
Report on the 15th. International Conference on Chemical Education.
(IUPAC)
S.
El-Sayed Hassan* and A.F.M. Fahmy**
Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ain-Shams University,
Cairo, Egypt
*Chairman
of the organizing committee and conference general secretary
**Conference
President
1-Introduction
The
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry holds a conference
on chemical education biannually. The fourteenth conference, has
been held in Brisbane, Australia. In view of the productive efforts
which has been made with the international Union during the meetings
of the general Assembly in Portugal and Britain it has been agreed
that the following conference, the fifteenth, will be organized
by Egypt and held in Cairo. For the first time. this conference
is held in the African continent and in the Middle East. The motto
of the conference is "Chemistry and Global Environmental
Changes".
2-
Conference organization and opening:
The
15th, International Conference of the International Union of pure
and Applied chemistry (IUPAC) has been organized by the Department
of chemistry, Faculty of science, Ain Shams University in cooperation
with:
- The
Unesco organization.
- The
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology Cairo.
- Egyptian
Environmental Affairs Agency,
- The
Arabian Group for Development. (AGD).
The
conference was held during August (9-14) 1998, in the Cairo International
convention center, Nasr City, under the auspices of:
- Prof.
Dr, Kamal EI-Ganzoury, Prime Minister
- Prof.
Dr. Mofeed Shchab, Minister of high Education and state minister
of scientific research
- Prof.
Dr. Hassan Ghallab, President of Ain Shams University.
The
conference was presided by Prof. Dr. A.F.M Fahmy, Chairman of the
Chemistry department, Faculty of Science, and the organizing committee
was headed by Prof. Dr. S. S, Hassan, professor of Chemistry, Faculty
of Science, Ain Shams University.
An
international exhibition for the technology of environmental protection
organized by the Arabian Group for development was affiliated
with the conference.
Opening
speeches have been given by:
- President
of the Academy for scientific research, and technology.
- The
Unesco representative.
- President
of the American Chemical Society.
- Ex-
President of the international union for pure and Applied chemistry.
- Head
of the organizing committee.
- President
of the conference.
- Vice
president of Ain Shams University.
- Representative
of the Ministry of high education and scientific research.
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- Activities and general Content.
These
include:
- An
opening lecture entitled "Chemistry in Culture" by
the Nobel prize laureate; Prof. R. Hoffmann (USA).
- Nine
Plenary lectures.
- Sixteen
workshops.
- Eighteen
symposia.
- Twelve
sessions for oral presentation. (40 papers)
- Two
poster sessions for 60 posters.
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- Cores and general theme
The
plenary lectures have covered the following titles:
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Chemical
Education and the pharmaceutical industry.
by A. E. Fischli, Ex-president of (IUPAC).
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The
use of systemic Approaches for teaching and learning
chemistry for the 21st Century.
by A. F. M. Fahmy *, and J.J. Lagowski.
*Chairman
of chemistry department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University
(Egypt).
-
The
Role of Distance learning in chemical education.
by J. J. Lagowski; professor of chemistry. University
of Texas Austin (USA).
-
A
skills taxonomy Driver for Distance learning Course Design in
Environmental chemistry.
by: S. W. Bennett; The Open University, (UK).
-
New
Teacher Professional competencies for New Times: Development
Beyond 2000.
by: W. Beasley: Queensland University. (Australia)
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Radio
Luminescent sources for optical chemical sensors.
by: M. A. Arnold; University of Iowa, (USA).
-
The
tension between Rellgion and Science: Hostile Environments?
by: H. Bouma: vice chairman of the Chemistry Teaching
Committee, (CTC -IUPAC) (Netherlands).
-
Hands-on
Practical chemistry for all.
by: J. D. Bradley, chairman of the (CTC- IUPAC).
(south Africa)
- Novel
Teaching Materials by means of the internet.
by: Y. Takeuchi Kanagawa University. (Japan) H.
Hosoya Ochanomizu University. (Japan) M. M. Ito Soka University.
(Japan) H. Yoshida, Hiroshima University. (Japan)
The
symposia and workshops: have covered the following topics.
- Materials
for Distance learners
-
Environmental chemistry
-
Chemical Education
-
Recycling and treatment of waste
-
Use of computer in teaching chemistry
-
Multimedia and teaching of chemistry
-
Self evaluation methods
-
Science fiction as a means for teaching chemistry
-
Use of TV nets in Educatio
- Use
of "internet" in teaching
- Laboratory
experiments for teaching environmental chemistry
- Integrated
approaches in teaching chemistry
- Environmental
culture
- Chemistry
and Industry
- Micro-chemistry
- Chemical
education : the relationships between a different branches
and their impact on pollution
- New
methods in teaching and learning chemistry
- Clinical
and Medicinal Chemistry
- Rallying
support and Funding for chemical Education
- Low
cost apparatus
- Pollution
detection
- Design
of courses for environmental chemistry
- Industrial
education
- Industry
and pollution
- Teaching
chemistry of organometallics
- Training
of teachers
-
Production of historic articles and monuments
- Concept
mapping in general chemistry
5-Participants.
The
number of Participants amounted to about (370) from the National
Universities,, Research centers and the Ministry of Education, Representatives
from 11 Arab countries namely., Yemen, Syria, Qatar, Lybia, Algeria,
Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Emrates and Jordon, as
well as representatives from 32 other countries: USA, UK, Germany,
Netherlands, Denmark, Slovenia, Hungary, South Africa, Australia,
Romania Switzerland, China, New Zealand, Russia, Turkey, India,
Japan, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Israel, Taiwan, Panama, Iran, Singapore,
Argentina, Finland, Sri-Lanka, Venezuela, Sweden, Armenia, Canada
and Vietnam.
6
- Social Events.
7
- Recommendations:
The
following recommendations have been made:
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Chemistry
teachers around the world, should consider., in teaching chemistry,
the relations between this subject and global environmental
changes. Courses should be planned such that they take these
relationships into account.
-
Chemistry
courses should make use of students skills and help develop
them to meet recent explosion of knowledge.
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Enhancing
the interaction and inter communication between Arable speaking
chemistry teachers on one hand and chemistry teachers around
the world on the other hand.
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Care
should be taken in planning of curricula and assessment methods
such that to meet the challenges of the coming century,
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Using
of all available modem technologies such as multimedia, internet
and space stations to up grade environmental culture as well
as students mental aptitudes and skills.
8-
The coming conference:
The
sixteenth conference for chemistry teaching will be held in Budapest,
Hungary in the year (2000).
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