Study on Doctoral Programs of Chemical Education in the United States
ZHU Yu-Jun1, WANG Xiang-Feng2, WANG Lei1
1. College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; 2. Analytical and Testing Center, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Abstract It is significant for advancing education reform to cultivate talents of discipline-based education research. This paper studied doctoral programs of chemical education in 6 universities in the United States, and analyzed the characteristics of training objectives, curriculums, scientific research requirements, and teaching practice requirements. The results showed that the training objectives oriented to both basic education and higher education; curriculums emphasized three-in-one of chemistry knowledge, educational theory and research methods; research requirements focused on scientific research attitude training and scientific research ability training; teaching practice requirements laid the foundation for future jobs. Moreover, this study gave suggestions for doctoral program of chemistry curriculum and didactics in China, such as clarifying and expanding objectives, improving requirements of chemistry curriculum, strengthening curriculum of research methods, and paying attention to teaching practice.