VERKHOVSKY EPONYMS IN THE EPOCH OF EDUCATIONAL ETHNOCENTRISM
VERKHOVSKY EPONYMS IN THE EPOCH OF EDUCATIONAL ETHNOCENTRISM

Author(s): Uladzimir Slabin
Subject(s): Education, School education
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: chemical eponyms; laboratory equipment; chemistry teaching; Verkhovsky ethnocentrism;
Summary/Abstract: Being of didactic and axiological potential, eponyms are important for science education, in particular for implementing the principles of humanization and historicism. Reviewing literature for dictionary of chemical eponyms, an unusual publication on teaching chemistry was found. It contained a number of self-introduced eponyms, no one of them is in use nowadays. Implications of the time the book was published at, ethnocentrism in education are discussed.

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