Educational Alternatives, Volume 13, 2015

Abstract: Modern views about education set focus on student’s activity and his cognitive activity which both are part of forming knowledge and skills. These ideas about education and its results are the basics of a new direction in natural science education, an education based on the main principles of constructivism. Estimating the tasks in chemistry education, the features of chemical knowledge and the need of education oriented to the student and the possibilities of changing the learning environment, some methods for cooperative learning are characterized in this article.