Making the learning of chemistry more relevant for students Authors Ingo Eilks University of Bremen (Germany) Marc Stuckey University of Bremen (Germany) Keywords: Scientific literacy, relevance, context-based learning, socio-scientific issues, doping, tattooing. Abstract Science teachers have to make the learning of science more relevant to their students. This is an often-heard claim when it comes to reforms in science education in general and in chemistry education in particular. However, it is not always clear what is meant by «making the learning of science more relevant». This paper reflects some theoretical and practical works about the meaning of relevance in science education and about potential teaching strategies to make science education more relevant to students in terms of individual, societal and vocational relevance, as well as to raise students’ perception thereof.keywords: Scientific literacy, relevance, context-based learning, socio-scientific issues, doping, tattooing. Author Biography Ingo Eilks, University of Bremen (Germany) Ingo Eilks and Marc Stuckey / University of Bremen (Germany) Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 23 (2017) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
