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Inclusive Chemistry Education Through Culturally Relevant Modules in General Chemistry: Developing and Implementing Culturally Relevant Modules
Abstract
Students learn better when they find connections between science and its applications to their lived experiences. Despite a call for reform in the teaching and learning of chemistry, Culturally Relevant Chemistry Education (CRCE) has remained a distant goal. This can be attributed to the lack of curricular materials to teach chemistry in a meaningful way. The study presented in this chapter has addressed this gap through modules that emphasize the relevance of scientific (chemistry-based) practices from a cultural and traditional standpoint. This chapter highlights the development and implementation of such CRCE modules in a large enrollment chemistry survey course in a Midwestern university. The impact of CRCE on student academic performance and conceptual understanding in terms of significant gains on pre and post assessments is presented for students participating in this exploratory mixed methods research study.
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