Chemistry With Light

Innovative Didactics for Studies and Teaching
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-662-72615-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 283 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This textbook is aimed at student teachers and educators in the subjects of chemistry, biology, physics, computer science, and geography.

Sunlight, the energetic driving force for life on Earth, is expected to advance to the forefront of technology by the end of the 21st century. To promote this, the call is: “More light! Also in school lessons!” Chemistry plays a key role in this because it investigates and describes the phenomena of interactions at the level of the smallest particles in substances with the smallest energy packets of light—photons.

This book aims to initiate and support necessary innovations in chemistry teaching. In alignment with the basic concepts of chemistry education and other STEM subjects, the future-relevant significance, conceptual foundations, and curricular integration of light-involved processes are scientifically justified and explained, didactically simplified and structured. Experiments play a central role in this. 

The online platform  / provides teaching and learning materials in digital formats and free of charge. They can be accessed via direct in the printed book as well as in the e-book version. Chemistry education research questions and approaches are discussed, commented on, and prepared for discussion in subject didactics seminars.

Chemistry with light conveys “science for future,” enabling a sustainable, environmentally friendly, and climate-neutral design of the future of our technological civilization.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tausch, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Nuklearchemie, Photochemie, Strahlenchemie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Quantenoptik, Nichtlineare Optik, Laserphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Optik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Anorganische Chemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Light and Chemistry – Cultural and Historical Milestones.- 2. Chemistry with Light – A Didactic Challenge.- 3. Chemistry Education– The Science of Teaching Chemistry .- 4. Key Concepts in Chemistry.- 5. Light – The New Key Concept in Chemistry Didactics.- 6. Conceptual Basics of Photochemistry.- 7. Experiments with Light.- 8. Sustainability with Light for Life and Technology.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael W. Tausch is a professor of chemistry and its didactics at the University of Wuppertal. As a teacher, he was awarded the Friedrich Strohmeyer Prize by the Chemistry Education Division in 1994. As a researcher, he has been awarded the inaugural Heinz Schmidkunz Prize by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCH, German Chemical Society). He promotes the integration of photochemical contents into Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) through experimental workshops and lectures at schools, universities, and teacher training institutes, as well as presentations for the general public.