Abstract The current research on chemical misconceptions mainly focuses on probing as well as transformation strategies, and lacks in-depth analysis of their essential causes. This paper analyzes the causes of chemical misconceptions based on the emergent perspective and summarizes five major classifications of misconceptions: Attributing an emergent property of a system to particular components, viewing an emergent property of a system as the sum of the properties of constituent entities, viewing chemical heuristics as exact determining rules, focusing on salient factors or cause-effect relationship in isolation instead of systemic consideration of all relevant ones, and making direct analogies from macroscopic properties to microscopic entities. Five coping strategies are proposed, namely, building a comparative analysis model, making full use of chemical experiments, recreating the history of chemical development, presenting the argumentative reasoning process, and flexibly applying representations, which are demonstrated with specific cases, in order to transform the chemical misconceptions and cultivate students' view of emergence.
LIU Yu-Rong, WANG Wei. Chemical Misconceptions and Transformation Strategy Based on Emergent Properties of Chemistry[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2025, 46(5): 3-10.
