Systems thinking is currently envisaged as a useful educational approach to teaching about sustainability (including green chemistry education) because of the high number of interrelated factors involved and the need of learners to acquire the ability to identify all of the factors and their relationships. After recalling the way in which key concepts are understood and utilized in this work, the work focuses on the challenges diagnosed in an introduction to green chemistry activity carried out within a process technology course in a disadvantaged educational context. In this process technology course, systems thinking is needed to understand the functioning of a chemical plant as a system; within the green chemistry related activity, systems thinking is needed to understand green chemistry principles, their implications for chemical production and practices, and their expected impacts. The challenges students encounter are highlighted through consideration of recurrent patterns of diagnosed inadequacies and problems. Poor language mastery is recognized as the paramount obstacle hindering the development of students’ systems thinking. Ensuring adequate language mastery by the learners is an essential prerequisite to the development of satisfactory systems thinking abilities.

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系统思维在绿色化学教育中的作用：来自弱势环境中已确定挑战的思考

当前，系统思维被认为是关于可持续性教学的一种有用的教育方法（包括绿色化学教育），因为涉及的相关因素数量众多，而且学习者需要获得识别所有因素及其关系的能力。在回顾了理解和利用本工作中的关键概念的方式之后，本工作着重介绍了在不利的教育背景下在过程技术课程中进行的绿色化学活动简介中诊断出的挑战。在此过程技术课程中，需要系统思考以了解化工厂作为系统的功能；在与绿色化学相关的活动中，需要系统思维来理解绿色化学原理，它们对化学生产和实践的影响，以及它们的预期影响。通过反复考虑诊断出的不足和问题的模式，凸显了学生遇到的挑战。语言掌握能力差被认为是阻碍学生系统思维发展的最主要障碍。确保学习者掌握足够的语言是发展令人满意的系统思维能力的必要前提。