Exploring student experiences of learning chemistry using holism evolution infused poetry

dc.contributor.authorMirkin, Philip Joshua
dc.contributor.emailphilip.mirkin@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-16T06:34:10Z
dc.date.available2025-04-16T06:34:10Z
dc.date.issued2024-02
dc.descriptionDATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT: The data used in this research is part of ongoing research, and will be stored in the data repository of the University of Pretoria. The anonymous raw data and summary of analysis is available from the author by request, at philip.mirkin@up.ac.za.en_US
dc.description.abstractHolism evolution states that although energy, matter, life, consciousness and the human personality are independent and different substances/levels of evolution, they are holistically and intimately related. This paper presents the findings from teaching chemistry to high school science students and post-graduate university science-education students using poetry constructed from physical science ideas embedded in holism evolution. The research findings are based on observations of student behaviour and their written feedback from being taught chemistry using poems on the periodic table and acids and bases. Both poems demonstrate the holism intimacy between various substances/levels of evolution, with the periodic table poem also presenting groups of chemical elements as representing the characteristics of infant, teenager, adult and old age of matter, presenting a holistic relationship between matter and life. The findings indicate that using holism evolution-infused content led to a personally meaningful engagement with chemistry even among students with limited previous interest in the subject. Many post-graduate students expressed new levels of engagement with chemistry as well as new insights to enliven their teaching practice.en_US
dc.description.departmentScience, Mathematics and Technology Educationen_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-04:Quality Educationen_US
dc.description.urihttps://link.springer.com/journal/44217en_US
dc.identifier.citationMirkin, P.J. Exploring student experiences of learning chemistry using holism evolution infused poetry. Discover Education 3, 13 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44217-024-00095-w.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2731-5525 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1007/s44217-024-00095-w
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/102125
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2024. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en_US
dc.subjectHolism evolutionen_US
dc.subjectChemistryen_US
dc.subjectPoetryen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectScienceen_US
dc.subjectPeriodic tableen_US
dc.subjectCharacterisationen_US
dc.subjectSDG-04: Quality educationen_US
dc.titleExploring student experiences of learning chemistry using holism evolution infused poetryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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