A Study to Build the Structure of Science Education : Especially from the viewpoint of Chemical Cognition

Abstract

The heritage of education is the seed that brings forth the prosperity of the future. The culture has inherited from generation to generation through the education. The culture is not a mere register of facts. Learner's minds connect one fact with another. They seek for order and relationship. In this way they arrange the facts so that they are linked by some inner law into a coherent network and give the logical explanation and meanings. This is the very process of a systematic way of answering questions. As a result of this process, an organization of knowledge is being built and a new culture has developed and transmitted. In chemical education, the learners must think of places and phenomena that have not yet been explored. Therefore, they seek the implication of his image and uses the image to make predictions about nature in new and different situations. Predictions - cause and effect relationship or grouping - are made by seeing if they are consisted with nature in new situation. Chemical education is the organization of learner's knowledge in such a way that it commands more of the hidden potential in chemical change which separate and recombine so as to produce new substances with different properties.