Scientific Literacy in the Curriculum of the Czech Republic and Its Development in Chemistry Classes

Abstract

The first part of the contribution deals with a theme of the Czech curriculum and scientific literacy. The Czech curricular system is described, following by the relationship between the Czech curricular documents and a definition of a scientific literacy, and the PISA results of the Czech pupils between 2006–2012. Moreover, there is an idea of a development of the scientific literacy by using teaching tasks in Chemistry. Almost one hundred teachers‘ answers were evaluated, giving a basic feedback on a support regarding the most problematic issues of the development of the scientific literacy in Chemistry.