Teaching Polymer Chemistry through Cultural Heritage
| Autor: | Rebecca Ploeger, Jocelyn Alcántara-García |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Class (computer programming)
media_common.quotation_subject 010401 analytical chemistry 05 social sciences 050301 education Common ground General Chemistry 01 natural sciences Field (computer science) 0104 chemical sciences Education Cultural heritage Undergraduate research Polymer chemistry Curiosity Chemistry (relationship) 0503 education Curriculum media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Chemical Education. 95:1118-1124 |
| ISSN: | 1938-1328 0021-9584 |
| Popis: | Polymers are present in most organic materials in the field of cultural heritage science and art conservation. This makes the study of polymer chemistry necessary in art conservation graduate training programs. Given each program approaches this important topic in different ways, the present paper describes areas of common ground and problems we, as faculty in two of the programs in North America, have found, and how we have addressed them: from stressing the importance of polymer science as part of a holistic educational model to emerging art conservators, to addressing the characterization and degradation of polymers in cultural heritage. While they are seemingly different, both approaches successfully accomplish our overall goal: instill scientific curiosity and problem solving using the extremely ubiquitous class of materials we know as polymers. Consequently, our strategies and the practical exercises we are describing can be easily applied to other areas where polymers are present. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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