Humanizing Chemistry Education: From Simple Contextualization to Multifaceted Problematization

Humanizing physiology education.

We teach medical and other health professional students “human physiology,” so one might wonder at the title of this editorial. One definition of humanize is “to make something friendlier to humans. Humanizing makes things more civilized, refined,andunderstandable”(https://www. vocabulary.com/dictionary/humanize). So, should we even attempt to humanize physiology education? And, if so, how migh...

Digital government evolution: From transformation to contextualization

The Digital Government landscape is continuously changing to reflect how governments are trying to find innovative digital solutions to social, economic, political and other pressures, and how they transform themselves in the process. Understanding and predicting such changes is important for policymakers, government executives, researchers and all those who prepare, make, implement or evaluate...

Chemistry Education: Ten Facets To Shape Us

The chemistry knowledge that we want our students to develop is rich, complex, and multifaceted. However, some teachers and instructors at the secondary school and college levels approach it in rather rigid and unidimensional ways. The central goal of this contribution is to describe and discuss 10 different complementary perspectives or “facets” from which chemistry content in introductory cou...

From a simple chronic headache to neurobrucellosis: a case report

 Brucellosis is an infectious disease with high incidence in Iran. Neurobrucellosis is a focal complication of brucellosis affecting both central and peripheral nervous system presenting with a varieties of signs and symptoms. The most reported manifestations are meningitis and meningoencephalitis. In this report, we will describe a case of a young woman affected by neurobrucellosis presen...

Chemistry Education and Contributions from History and Philosophy of Science.