While chemistry is popular for children of primary school age,its popularity drops dramatically in secondary schools.A potential solution to address this is to recognise the need for greater relevance-relevance to the curriculum,to the needs of society and,in the eyes of the students.The paper tries to puts forward a rethink of the philosophy for school chemistry education,based on the underlying belief that chemistry education is an integral part of education.The target is labelled scientific and technological literacy for all(STL).STL rejects the notion that chemistry is taught solely to acquire the abilities to be a scientist and supports the vision of a single curriculum goal,applicable to all students.Besides being a philosophy,STL is also a teaching approach.This approach is to initiate the teaching of chemistry topics,starting from a carefully chosen society perspective and to introduce the conceptual learning on a need-to-know basis.A limitation is the professional development of teachers.Suggestion for overcoming this involve workshop on materials development.A concern is expressed in cases where teachers make use of ready-made teaching materials (a common practice),without first gaining an understanding and an appreciation of the intended philosophy related to these materials.

I present some preliminary results on how the classroom narratives in chemistry are interconnected to the teachers life histories and why chemistry teachers use narratives.The results are based on two rounds of interviews with Swedish chemistry teachers in upper secondary school.Tentative results suggested that these teachers used narratives as a tool for teaching and to promote learning,although in different ways.It is suggested that we understand concepts better if we are introduced to them in narrative discourse.Using narratives also seems to promote a plurality of emphases in teaching.

We are facing the infornation age .Modern information technology is changing our life style ,and soon.In today.schemical classroom ,teachers have more and more chances to apply modern information technology.Since 2001,we have done some practices on integration of chemical education with modern infomation technology.This article reports our experiments in middle school.

Normal college chemical education requires higher character education.Therefore,we must change our ideas;Pay attention to the education of students.basic moral character and focus on the education of students.innovation spirits and practicing abilities.Establish the goal of chemical character education and bring all aspects of it into the chemical course.Integrate the functions,structures,contents and mechanisms of the course.Realize the modernization of teaching means and educational information.Take every possible measure to form a teacher.s troop with high qualities and reasonable structure,which helps guarantee the realization of character education.Create good internal and external circumstances for character education.