Travel Support for U.S. Participants in the Ninth Inter- national Conference on Chemical Education

世界各地的科学教育似乎正在发生许多变化，其中许多是相当成功的，非常值得分享。这项建议将支持大约20名化学教育工作者参加将于1987年7月26日至31日在巴西圣保罗举行的第九届国际化学教育会议。代表团将由小学、初中、高中、大学教师组成，其中大学预科教师占全体教师的70%。为了在会议上促进国际教师支助网的发展，并进一步传播在巴西获得的知识，被选中的教师将同意在会议上进行一项具体的资料收集活动。每位教师将选择一个本国化学教育者关心的问题，并通过圣保罗的网络活动，收集所需的信息，将其他国家在解决这一问题方面的努力与美国的努力进行比较。从会议回来后，他们将被要求写一篇论文，讨论所选问题的相关方法，并将这篇论文提交给美国化学学会进行审查。其中七篇论文将在1988年7月举行的美国化学学会化学教育司第十届两年期教育会议的特别专题讨论会上发表。

Much appears to be happening in science education throughout the world, much of which is quite successful and very worth sharing. This proposal would support the participation of approximately twenty chemical educators in the Ninth International Conference on Chemical Education, to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 26-31 July l987. Elementary, middle, high school, and college teachers will be represented in the delegation, with the precollege teachers comprising 70% of the total. In order to facilitate the development of international teacher support networks at the conference, and the further dissemination of knowledge gained in Brazil, the teachers selected will agree to undertake a specific information-gathering activity at the conference. Each teacher will select an issue of concern to chemical educators in this country and, through network activities in Sao Paulo, collect the information needed to compare other countries' efforts to address this issue with efforts in the United States. On returning from the conference, they will be expected to write a paper discussing relevant approaches to the issue selected and submit this paper to the American Chemical Society for review. Seven of these papers will be selected for presentation during a special symposium at the ACS Division of Chemical Education's Tenth Biennial Education Conference to be held during July l988.