Informal chemistry education: a missed opportunity? Authors Sarah Hayes University of Limerick. Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (Ireland) Keywords: Outreach, public engagement, informal education, non-formal education. Abstract Science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) disciplines are increasingly shaping our lives and the world we live in. With this in mind, there is concern that skills shortages could impact on national and global economies. Addressing challenges across these areas requires engaged and informed citizens and also a pool of STEMM professions, for the present day and the future. This paper will focus on the bodies of research that shape this dialogue, specifically, attitudes towards science, public understanding of science, scientific literacy and work undertaken in the area of outreach and public engagement leading to informal and non-formal learning with a particular focus on chemistry related programmes.keywords: Outreach, public engagement, informal education, non-formal education. 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.
