A symposium that focused on the education of chemistry teachers in China at predominately the middle and high school levels is discussed. The topics of curriculum and textbook reforms, instructional uses of modern technology, science-technology-society, collaborative efforts with educational psychologists, hands-on laboratory work, and the…

Presents examples of evaluation studies of visitor interactions with science museum exhibits. Example one involves application of existing findings about naive notions of motion to task of engineering a novel encounter with parabolic trajectories. Example two is a student project evaluating a prototype exhibit on light pipes and concludes that…

Discusses traditional models found in teacher education and multicultural education to better understand the union of these two fields. Explores the implications of multicultural teacher education for future research in the field of multicultural science-teacher education. Proposes several ideas for multicultural science-education inquiry for…