On the Way to the Ideal Textbook of Chemistry

Abstract

History school textbook on chemistry in the Russian Empire beginning in the first half of the 19th century. Which textbooks in chemistry were the first? Who were their authors? What do You know about first stable tutorials in 1930-ies? All of this is briefly reflected in proposed to Your attention. You will learn about the first criteria that guided the first authors of textbooks in 1803 and 1840 уу. You can read also about the pedagogical censorship, which appeared in 1869. Finally, You will be offered to current approaches to assessing the quality of the texts. The first formulation of this issue was started in the last decades of the 20th century. The author presents a comparative description of modern Russian textbooks, per-formed on the basis of the proposed criteria. Any teacher can evaluate themselves in accord-ance with these views and, on that basis, selective tutoring for his school. Seemingly has everything You need to create the ideal textbook, but it has not yet been established. At the same time in education appeared e-learning tools, including e-learning textbook. In addition to traditional types of information - text, tables, pictures etc. - electronic textbooks may use and new – speech, music, movie videos, animations and other colored. It is possible to use multiple document, presenting system information, hypertext links. Now, authors and consumers will face two challenges: the quality of these tests and their correlation with classical, i.e. paper. Thus arises the question of creation of ergonomic tutorial of the twenty-first century. Keywords: history textbooks, quality criteria for classic and electronic textbooks, ergonomic tutorial.

Mendeleev’s Portrayal and Mendeleevian Eponyms in Chemical Education: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

“…Another reason for the absence of Mendeleev's portrait, biography, periodic table, and periodic law from early Soviet textbooks could be the emphasis on utilitarian chemistry at that time and the Bolshevik authorities' desire to replace traditional textbooks with newspaper-textbooks, magazine-textbooks, and workbooks (Zubko, 2016, p. 265). Teleshov (2013) writes, "there was a period of total denial of any study text" (p. 42). Indeed, such substitutes contained a minimum to no coverage of the theory and history of chemistry, including Mendeleev and his eponyms.…”