A Comparative Study in Green Chemistry Education Curriculum in America and China

Green chemistry education offers a solution to our current environmental problems because it provides the opportunity to train future scientists, thus helping move us toward a more sustainable society. In this study, we compared Iran's green chemistry education curriculum with curricula in two developed countries (America & China), using Bereday's method. Our aim was using the experiences of other countries for promoting Iran's green chemistry education curriculum. This paper tries to review, the basic elements of curriculum including logic, objectives, content, teaching methods and assessment in these countries about of this subject. The results showed that there are more similarities in the logic of the curriculum, but the differences are in the objectives, content, teaching methods and assessment. Although Iran has been successful in environmental education but in green chemistry education it requires a revise. The results help program planners to look deeper into curriculum development in green chemistry education. Therefore educational system outputs will be consistent with the community needs. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the Faculty of Education, University Technology MARA, Malaysia.