The Journal

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The Journal Educación Química

• Impact of the journal Educación Química on
  Ibero-america An international multilanguage
  journal and its importance in updating chemistry
  teaching.

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XIX Biennial Conference on Chemical Education

• Symposium Chemistry Across Borders
• Andoni Garritz
• UNAM, Mexico

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When Educación Química was born?

• Between 1966 and 1974 there exist a Journal
• Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Química
• In the nineties Educación Química was born
• in Mexico city
• March 1988. Development of the project
• July 1989. Issue of presentation
• January 1990. Volume 1, number 1

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Objective of Educación Química

• To fulfill in Iberoamerica the huge gap of
  communication that exists between teachers,
  students and chemistry professionals concerned
  about education.

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Needs to cover (1989)

• 1) To update teachers, professionals and students
• 2) To explore didactics of hard-to-teach topics
• 3) To increase communication on chemistry
• 4) To promote the use of history to teach
  chemistry
• 5) To exchange exams and criteria for the
  assessment of chemistry learning

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Needs to cover (1989)

• 6) To promote experimental science and technology
  teaching
• 7) To exchange experiences on educational
  research, curriculum design and assessment
• 8) To increase the contact and communication
  between the diverse educational levels
• 9) To debate the great problems of education
• 10) To promote the participation of chemistry
  students on the elaboration of the Journal

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Policies

• Plurality
• Four languages (Spanish, English, French and
  Portuguese)
• Zero subvention, that is, to survive with the
  readers subscription fees
• To minimize the translation of papers published
  elsewhere and maximize original papers
• At least two referees to judge each paper
• Mexican Editorial Council (1988)
• International Editorial Council (1994)

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International Editorial Council

• Manuel Martínez (Chile)
• Lourdes Zumalacárregui (Cuba)
• Cecilia Díaz (Panamá)
• Lueny Morell (Puerto Rico)
• Gabriel A. Infante (P. Rico)
• Santiago de Vicente (Spain)
• Manuel Fernández (Spain)
• Vicente Talanquer (U.S.A.)
• Luis Cortés (Venezuela)

• José M. Abraham (Argentina)
• Marta Bulwik (Argentina)
• Gabriela de Lorenzo (Argentina)
• José Claudio del Pino (Brasil)
• Reg Friesen (Canada)
• Mónica Zolezzi (Canada)
• Teresa Reguero (Colombia)
• Patricia Acuña (Chile)
• Guido Canessa (Chile)
• Marcela Arellano (Chile)

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Sections of the Journal

• Alternative conceptions and conceptual change
• Books mistakes
• Chemotrivia rejecta
• Chemistry and everyday life
• Compuchemistry
• Crib (ACORDEÓN)
• Curriculum

• Debate
• Demonstrations
• Ecochemistry
• Editorial
• Educational evaluation
• Educational research
• Exam questions
• Fresh news
• Hard bones to teach

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More Sections

• How to experiment, construct, model, analyze
• Interface (In between school and work)
• Reviews
• Science for children
• Science-Technology-Society
• Teachers update
• To know, to experiment and to simulate
• To take the dust away
• Web

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Recent published papers in English

• On purpose of the 15th anniversary of Educación
  Química we opened a special section in which we
  published
• Bredas, J. L., Beljonne, D., Coropceanu, V. y
  Cornil, J. (Georgia Institute of Technology,
  USA), Electro-active ?-Conjugated Oligomers and
  Polymers A Molecular Picture of Charge Transfer
  Processes, Educ. Quím., 15 4, 388-397, 2004.
• Felder, R. M. (North Carolina State University,
  U.S.A.), Teaching engineering at a research
  university problems and possibilities, Educ.
  Quím., 151, 40-42, 2004.
• Kelter, P. (Univ. de Illinois at
  Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.), Assessment in
  Academia the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Educ.
  Quím., 152, 113-119, 2004.

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Recent published papers in English

• Wisniak, J. (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
  Israel), Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, Educ.
  Quím., 154, 425-431, 2004.
• Aikenhead, G.S. (University of Saskatchewan,
  Canada), Research Into STS Science Education,
  Educ. Quím., 163, 384-397, 2005.
• Bodner, G.M. y Bhattacharyya, G., (Purdue
  University, USA) A cultural approach to problem
  solving, Educ. Quím., 162, 222-229, 2005.
• Chan, W. H. y Kee, W. K. (Hong Kong Baptist
  Universi-ty, Hong Kong), Demonstration of
  environmental che-mistry with microscale
  chemistry and a low-cost four-LED based
  photometer. Educ. Quím., 164, 510-513, 2005.
• Hodson, D. (University of Toronto, Canada),
  Teaching and Learning Chemistry in the
  Laboratory A Critical Look at the Research,
  Educ. Quím., 161, 30-38, 2005.

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Recent published papers in English

• Livneh, M. (Bar Ilan University, Israel),
  Experiments in Dyes and Dyeing. Means to better
  understand the nature of intermolecular forces,
  Educ. Quím., 164, 534-539, 2005.
• Mattson, B. (Creighton University, USA),
  Microscale Gas Chemistry, Educ. Quím., 164,
  514-528, 2005.
• Tausch, M. W. (Bergische Universität Wuppertal,
  Germany), Teaching Photochemistry with Microscale
  Experiments. A Contribution for the Ongoing
  Curriculum Modernisation, Educ. Quím., 164,
  529-533, 2005.
• Gruvberg, C. (Gothenburg University, Sweden),
  Chemistry Made Accessible for Children, Educ.
  Quím., 172, 114-116, 2006.

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Recent published papers in Portuguese

• Borges, M. N., Ribeiro, C. M. y de Souza, N. A.
  (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil),
  Valorização do monitor versus diminuição da
  evasão na monitoria, Educ. Quím. 164, 586-592,
  2005.
• Lopes, C.V., Del Pino, J.C. Souza, D.O. y
  Ghilardi, V.G. (Universidade Federal do Río
  Grande do Sul, Brasil), Ciências naturais e
  química o que pensa o professorado, Educ. Quím.
  171, 67-76, 2006.
• Wartha, E.J. y Faljoni-Alário, A. (Universidade
  de Sao Paulo, Brasil), El concepto de
  contextualiza-ción presente en los libros
  didácticos de química brasileños, 16x, 151-158,
  2005.

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Foreign authors 1990-2005 259
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International papers per year
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Our last frontispieces
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