Didactic discipline

In fact, by the time Hankins wrote his disciplinary assessment of pre-Lavoisier chemistry, a counternarrative of the development of chemistry as a discipline had already appeared in Owen Hannaway s 1975 The Chemists and the Word The Didactic Origins of Chemistry. As the subtitle indicated, Hannaway s narrative traced the invention of chemistry as a discipline back to the initiation of a didactic chemical textbook tradition by the humanist, Andreas Libavius, with his own textbook, the Alchemia of 1597.16... 

Summary A new concise and accessible textbook treating the essentials of kinetics, catalysis and chemical reactor engineering.The didactic approach is suited for undergraduate students in chemical engineering and for students in other exact science and engineering disciplines. Each part of theory is supported with a worked example and a number of exercises are included. This book distinguishes itself from the major textbooks in chemical reactor engineering by the part on laboratory practice that it presents, in which theory is applied and illustrated in kinetic and reactor experiments, l her support material is available upon course adoption —Provided by publisher. 

Kelley, 2003) and in Europe (Psillos Meheut, 2001 Meheut Psillos, in press). In Sweden the government demands eonsiderably more of the kind of researeh that turns directly to the school world and emphasises especially the need of research in didactics of subject matter. This work, including developing domain-specific theories, is probably a way to strengthen science education as an autonomous discipline, which is in the interest of both teachers and researchers. 

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