Proposal from the Japanese Chemical Education to Asian/Pacific Chemical Education

本调查的目的是与化学教育尚未完全发展的亚太地区的化学学会进行合作研究，编写一本总结每个国家/地区化学教育现状的书。该项目得到了亚洲化学学会联合会（FACS）的支持，该书于1997年5月在广岛举行的第七届亚洲化学大会（7ACC）上完成并出版。参与的化学学会如下：孟加拉国、中国、斐济（南太平洋）、香港、印度、韩国、科威特、尼泊尔、新西兰、巴基斯坦、菲律宾、新加坡、斯里兰卡、台湾、越南《亚洲/太平洋地区的化学教育》一书已分发给全世界的化学教育工作者。我们希望通过互联网分发这些材料，以便任何对亚太地区化学教育感兴趣的人都可以毫不费力地收集相关信息。我们已经建立了一个系统，亚洲化学教育网络（ACEN）作为FACS活动的一部分。通过ACEN网站，任何人都可以访问本书的所有手稿。此外，我们还准备了《日本的化学教育》（第2版）的书稿。我们计划进一步扩大这一活动，首先从日本到亚洲，然后从亚洲到世界。我们的项目已经得到了化学教学委员会（CTC），国际理论与应用化学联合会（IUPAC）的批准，并在教育，科学和文化部的科学研究补助金的帮助下进行了初步研究。

The purpose of this investigation is to carry out a cooperative study with chemical societies of Asian/Pacific area where the chemical education is not necessarily fully developed to prepare a book which summarize the present status of chemical education of each country/area. The project was supported by FACS (Federation of Asian Chemical Societies).The book was completed and published in May, 1997 when the 7th Asian Chemical Congress (7ACC) was held in Hiroshima. The contributing chemical societies are as follows : Bangladesh, China, Fiji (South Pacific), Hong Kong, India, Korea, Kuwait, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam The book, "Chemical Education in Asia/Pacific" was distributed among chemical educators of the world.The purpose of this project in not limited to the publication of the book. We wanted to distribute the material via internet so that any one who is interested in chemical education of Asia/Pacific area can gather relevant information without much difficulty. We have already set up a system, Asian Chemical Education Network (ACEN) as a part of activity of FACS.Via website of ACEN,all the manuscripts for the book can be approached by anyone. In addition one can access to the manuscript for the similar book, "Chemical Education in Japan (2nd version)" which was also prepared by us.We are planning to widen this activity further ; thus initially from Japan to Asia, and then from Asia to the World. Our project was already approved by the Committee on Teaching of Chemistry (CTC), International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and a preliminary study was already initiated with the help of Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.