Synopses & Reviews
Educating the next generation of chemists about green chemistry issues, such as waste minimisation and clean synthesis, is vital for environmental sustainability. This book aims to enable green issues to be taught from the underlying principles of all chemistry courses rather than in isolation.
Chapters contributed by green chemistry experts from across the globe with experience in teaching at different academic levels are carefully edited to provide a coherent overview of possible approaches to incorporate green chemistry into existing curriculums. Importantly, green chemistry is placed in the context of broader sustainability developments and useful laboratory experiments and in-class activities to aid teaching are included. Furthermore, the connections between the general objectives of green chemistry education and the design of pedagogical options are highlighted throughout enabling readers to design personalised options most apt for their own context.
The contents are split into three sections. The first introduces sustainability and green chemistry education, explores the meaning of sustainable development and provides an overview of different models to integrate sustainability with chemistry education. The second and third parts focus on high school green chemistry education initiatives and green chemistry education at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
This book will provide a valuable resource for chemical educators worldwide who wish to integrate green chemistry into chemical education in a systematic and holistic way. It will also be of interest to anyone wanting to learn more about the different approaches adopted around the world in sustainability education.
Synopsis
Enabling green issues to be taught from the underlying principles of all chemistry courses, rather than in isolation, this book is a valuable resource for chemical educators worldwide who wish to integrate green chemistry into chemical education in a systematic and holistic way. Chapters contributed by experts from across the globe, with experience in teaching at different academic levels, provide a coherent overview of possible approaches to incorporate green chemistry into existing curriculums. Useful laboratory experiments and in-class activities to aid teaching are included.
About the Author
James H Clark is Professor of Chemistry at the University of York, Director of the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, and a Director of the Biorenewables Development Centre, UK. He has been at the forefront of green chemistry worldwide for nearly 20 years.Peter Rudolf Seidl - Professor, Graduate Program on Technology of Chemical and Biochemical Processes, EQ/UFRJ (TPQB/EQ/UFRJ), and responsible for the establishment of the Brazilian Green Chemical School (EBQV). Thesis advisor and project coordinator in physical organic chemistry applied to chemical process areas such as petroleum, pharmaceuticals, mineral technology, etc., publishing widely in these areas and holding an international patent on the use of cashew wastes as a raw material. Former President of the Brazilian Chemical Association (ABQ) and active in the organization of meetings and workshops, such as the 1st International Conference on Chemistry of the Amazon (held shortly after Rio 92) and, more recently, the 1st Workshop on Asphaltenes Characterization and Properties held in 2009 and Biorefineries 2010 Recent Advances and New Challenges, held last November.
Table of Contents
The interface between provision of information and behaviour patterns; Education for sustainable development and chemistry education; Rio+20 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and green chemistry; Green chemistry in response to environmental issues: socio-scientific dilemmas in science education; Green chemistry in Brazil: contemporary tendencies and challenges and its reflections on high school level; Collaborative development of a green high school chemistry curriculum in Thailand; Green chemistry as a guiding idea for innovation in the informal student laboratory; Small scale green chemistry in higher education in Thailand; Teaching catalyst mechanisms for converting biomass into liquid fuels; Holistic green chemistry metrics for use in teaching laboratories; Embedding toxicology into the chemistry curriculum; The state of green chemistry instruction at Canadian Universities; Education in green chemistry: incorporating green chemistry in chemistry teaching methods course at the Universiti Sains Malaysia; Educational efforts in green and sustainable chemistry from the Spanish Network in Sustainable Chemistry; Green chemistry and sustainable industrial technology: 10 years of an MSc program; Introducing green chemistry (from a Brazilian Perspective) into graduate courses