@article {76,
	title = {ASSESMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT IN A CONTEMPORARY TEACHING/LEARNING MODEL OF CHEMISTRY IN BASIC SCHOOLS OF LATVIA},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2004},
	month = {March/2003},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {43-51},
	abstract = {Pedagogic investigation, situation study and analysis are presented on one aspect of the previously developed teaching/learning model {\quotedblbase}Society {\textendash} Nature {\textendash} Technology{\textquotedblright}. The attitude of 600 Latvian students of the 8th and 9th grades towards environmental education, their understanding about particular environmental problems and their place in chemistry teaching and learning content are evaluated in the paper. Comparative research was done resulting in the assessment of the increase in   the comprehension of environmental problems of those students who have participated in the approbation of the teaching/learning model.
Situation analysis before the approbation of our teaching/learning model {\quotedblbase}Society {\textendash} Nature {\textendash} Technology{\textquotedblright} (Bartusevi{\v c}a, Cedere, 2004) confirms insufficient comprehension of environmental issues and problems among respondents in the 8th and 9th grades in schools of Latvia.
The developed approach {\textendash} teaching/learning model considering three mutually joint aspects (society, nature, and technology) is proved in practice. Students{\textquoteright} comprehension about chemistry increased during the pedagogic experiment. The test results have shown that students{\textquoteright} acquisition level has increased by 38.4\% in the 8th{\textendash}9th grades (during two school years), and by 26.8\% in the 9th grades (during one school year).

Approbation results validate the following approaches:

	
considerably increased proportion of applied chemistry in chemistry curriculum;
	
environmentally friendly laboratory exercises in chemistry classes;
	
methods that stimulate thinking and emphasize the significance of chemistry in everyday life.},
	keywords = {basic school, chemistry education, environmental education, teaching/learning model},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2016/987-1482420477.pdf},
	author = {Aira Bartusevi{\v c}a and Dagnija Cedere and Rudite Andersone}
}
@article {69,
	title = {FORMATION OF A CONTEMPORARY TEACHING/LEARNING MODEL OF CHEMISTRY IN BASIC SCHOOL},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2004},
	month = {March/2003},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {49-57},
	abstract = {A new contemporary teaching/learning model of chemistry in basic school in Latvia is proposed and discussed in the paper. Society{\textquoteright}s needs, contemporary demands and sustainable development are driving forces of the model. A meaningful mode of chemical thinking, a careful and understanding attitude towards environmental processes, and skills and attitudes useful for practical life result from the application of the mentioned model. The model, together with accompanying didactical material {\textendash} student{\textquoteright}s laboratory workbook, teacher{\textquoteright}s guide and students{\textquoteright} worksheets, was tested in several basic schools of Latvia.
Developed teaching/learning model of chemistry at basic school allows:

{\textperiodcentered}        Introduction the student into the unified understanding of intellectual, natural, and material values.

{\textperiodcentered}        Demonstration of the student-centered approach in the teaching process of chemistry as the most effective system of pedagogical method in Latvia at the present time.

{\textperiodcentered}        Implementation qualitative changes in curriculum, proving the significance of applied chemistry and applied skills as useful for human{\textquoteright}s practical life.},
	keywords = {basic school, chemical education, teaching/learning model},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2016/987-1482419622.pdf},
	author = {Aira Bartusevi{\v c}a and Dagnija Cedere}
}
@article {56,
	title = {ECO-TEAM FORMATION IN LATVIA AND THEIR ROLE IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2003},
	month = {March/2003},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {5 - 11},
	abstract = {The attitude of an individual to various phenomena, the environment among them, to great extent depends on understanding these issues. The world experience with eco-team activities as a means of building environmental understanding has already been known for more than a decade. Alongside with the foreign experience, this article gives an insight in the process of eco-team formation in the Baltics, especially in Latvia.

The first results allow us to look upon eco-teams as a new and ambitious pedagogical strategy that is a good incentive to introduce the environmental education as a school subject to build a comprehensive and caring attitude towards the nature and the processes inside it.

The very participation in an eco-team is an education, it offers the individual real chances to contribute to the improvement of the environment, combining the theoretical knowledge obtained in the separate study subject classes with practical work. Consequently, it motivates the students to further action. Thus the knowledge acquired in the subject classes may promote useful activities in families, social life, at leisure and in everyday life.

The first results, the interest of students and teachers in this method imply that the eco-team is a new and promising pedagogical strategy, helping the students to develop an evaluative and caring attitude towards the surrounding environment and its processes as well as providing learning motivation for natural science subjects.

The initiative of eco-team coaches, the pedagogical skills of eco-team leaders and the activity of the current participants will to a large extent determine whether and to what extent will eco-team movement spread and succeed in Latvian schools and society in future.},
	keywords = {eco-teams, environmental education},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/987-1503928449.pdf},
	author = {Aira Bartusevi{\v c}a and Dagnija Cedere}
}
