Sep 15, 2023
Doctoral student at GDCh Science Forum and GDCP Annual Conference
The venue of the GDCh Science Forum was the Congress Hall, next to Leipzig Zoo (Image source: https://www.gdch.de/gdch/wissenschaftsforum-chemie/wifo-2023.html)
The largest national conferences for chemistry didactics or didactics for chemistry and physics took place this year in consecutive weeks in September.
Doctoral student John Jursch next to his poster on a research-based teaching-learning module in the context of green hydrogen economy
At the GDCh (German Chemical Society, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) Science Forum in Leipzig from 4-6 September 2023, doctoral student John Jursch (project G3: Ensure education for sustainable development and understanding of the processual nature of scientific and technical research through research-oriented teaching-learning concepts and science communication) was given the opportunity to present his research to the professional audience in a top poster short lecture and at the poster exhibition. Framed by exciting discussion and experimental presentations, the conference offered insights into the latest research on the development of student experiments, the design of chemistry lessons or the training of student teachers. The conference motto "Rethinking Chemistry" was therefore also worked on intensively in the specialist group Chemistry Education with regard to the special subject didactic perspective.
Tightly packed posters at the GDCh Science Forum Poster Party.
At the Annual conference of the "Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik" (GDCP) (Society for Didactics of Chemistry and Physics) from 11-14 September 2023 in Hamburg, John Jursch came into contact with researchers from both disciplines on the conference topic of "Early Science Education". Due to the multi-perspective view of sometimes very similar problems, a fruitful exchange was also achieved at this conference, stimulated by poster presentations. Numerous overlaps with other research projects in both disciplines stimulated intensive networking that can be built upon in the future.