International
Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 3, Number 1, January 2009
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SoTL in Chemistry: How to Make the Learning Meaningful
“We have a new opportunity to shape a new generation
of faculty or, as is being widely
proposed, choose a new configuration of academic staff that might include
faculty but
have the potential for greatly enhancing the substances and effectiveness
of the scholarship
that a changing society requires.” (Rice, 2005)
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Liberato Cardellini
Universita' Politecnica delle Marche
Ancona, Italy
l.cardellini@univpm.it
I obtained my degree in Chemistry from the University of Tourin (Italy)
and am now an associate professor of chemistry at the Università
Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. I have about 150 research publications
in science education, study of charge-transfer complexes, and the chemistry
of free radicals. Author of two books. I have spent three periods of
study leave at the Chemical Centre of the University of St. Andrews
in Scotland, doing radical chemistry research, and also being at the
Centre for Science Education at the University of Glasgow. I teach General
Chemistry in an engineering university. My research interests are in
science education, problem solving, and methods for improving learning
such as concept maps, active and cooperative learning.
Webpages:
http://wwwcsi.unian.it/educa
http://www.univpm.it/docenti/Cardellini