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This volume emphasizes the role of chemical education for development and, in particular, for sustainable development in Africa, by sharing experiences among specialists across the African continent and with specialists from other continents. It considers all areas and levels of chemistry education, gives specific attention to known major challenges and encourages explorations of novel approaches.

The chapters in this book describe new teaching approaches, approach-explorations and in-class activities, analyse educational challenges and possible ways of addressing them and explore cross-discipline possibilities and their potential benefits for chemistry education.

This makes the volume an up to date compendium for  chemistry educators and educational researchers worldwide.

Research in Chemistry Education

Chapter 1. Globalization of chemistry education in Africa: Challenges and opportunities.- Chapter 2. Achieving the aims of practical work with microchemistry.- Chapter 3. Chemistry for the masses: the value of small scale chemistry to address misconceptions and re-establish practical work in diverse communities.- Chapter 4. The Systemic Approach to Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry (SATLOC): Systemic Strategy for Building Organic Chemistry Units.- Chapter 5. Are our students learning and understanding Chemistry as intended? Investigating the level of prior knowledge of UNIVEN students for the 2nd year Inorganic Chemistry module.- Chapter 6. Are the newly formed Kenyan Universities ready to teach externally examined diploma courses in analytical chemistry?.- Chapter 7. "Closing the Circle" in Student Assessment and Learning.- Chapter 8. Interpretation and translation of chemistry representations by grade 11 pupils in the Chipata district, Zambia.- Chapter 9. The project IRRESISTIBLE: Introducing cutting edge science into the secondary school classroom.- Chapter 10. Chemistry teaching and chemical education research: 30 year experience in integration pathways.- Chapter 11. Teaching Modern Physics to Chemistry Students.- Chapter 12. Learning about green chemistry independently: Students' point of view.- Chapter 13. Chemistry education in Africa: investigating the challenges and designing for the future.