4th EucheMs chemistry congress

Poster Session 1
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chem. Listy 106, s587–s1425 (2012)
Poster session 1 - Education and History
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iSSueS of ethiCS in CheMiStry: A PerSonAL
oPinion
J. Petr 1
1 Palacky University in Olomouc, Department of Analytical
Chemistry, Olomouc, Czech Republic
The relation of ethics and chemistry represents an important
connection between a classical science discipline (chemistry) and
more sociological and philosophical discipline (ethics). However,
the connection of such disciplines was defined in early stage of
science e.g. with Aristotle or Plato. In 2011, Frank et al. [1]
published an interesting article related to problems of ethics in
chemistry and also started discussion about this theme. In my
contribution, a personal opinion on four main themes related to
the ethics and chemistry will be presented. First, a short review
of issues that need to be addressed will be discussed. Then
probably the most important problem related to the economic
profit vs. ethics issues will be addressed. Next point will be
connected with experiences of ethics issues in medicine that could
serve as a model for issues of ethics in chemistry. And finally,
some university students’ ideas on such theme will be presented
with a proposal of questionnaire to evaluate their opinions.
Acknowledgement: The financial support of my work by
the Operational Program Research and Development for
Innovations – European Regional Development Fund
(project CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0058) is gratefully acknowledged.
references:
1. H. Frank, L. Campanella, F. Dondi, J. Mehlich, E. Leitner,
G. Rossi, K. N. Ioset, G. Bringmann, Angew. Chem. Int.
Ed. 2011, 50, 8482-8490.
Keywords: ethics; chemistry; teaching;
4 th EucheMs chemistry congress
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the nAturAL CoMPoundS in hiGh SChooL
CheMiCAL eduCAtion
M. PoLivKovA 1
1 Charles University in Prague Faculty of Science, Department
of Teaching and Didactics of Chemistry, Prague, Czech
Republic
Email: polivkova.michala@gmail.com
Methods of learning about natural compounds have changed
in recent years mainly due to their use in daily life. Saccharides,
lipids, proteins and nucleic acids are found traditionally in the
textbooks, other natural compounds are mentioned less.
Nowadays there is emphasis on pigments, aromas, tastes,
pheromones and food additives.
The Framework education programme in Czech Republic
enables the variability in the chemistry education. In every high
school there is its own school education program, which is
specific to the school and allows teaching natural compounds in
less or bigger extent.
There is a problem with laboratory works in high school due
to allocation of hours. Somewhere they are not realized at all,
elsewhere students have them only a few times per school year.
Experiments with natural compounds are attractive, because
students know the material from home or supermarket.
We are going to interpret the results of our research about
natural compound in high school chemical education. We will
show that natural compounds have connection with daily life and
experiments with them are interesting for students.
Keywords: Natural products; Dyes/Pigments; Pheromones;
Terpenoids; Alkaloids;
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