Chemical Education. Educere or educare? Authors Claudi Mans i Teixidó Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: Conception, alternative conceptions, chemical change, chemical reaction, mass conservation. Abstract The article is a personal reflection on the introduction of conceptions and alternative conceptions in the field of chemistry throughout schooling, from early childhood education to high school. It analyzes the five basic points that, in the opinion of the author, should be assumed in the education of chemistry, as well as the fundamental laws of chemical science that should be well established at the end of schooling, and how they can be introduced taking into account the possible conceptions present in the students. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 30 (2022) Section Monografia: 30 números d’Educació Química EduQ 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.
