The Consideration of Elementary Teachers' Beliefs on Mathematics

초등 교사의 수학 및 수학 교수-학습에 대한 신념의 변화

The University of Education trains the teachers who are experts in the education and expects them to achieve the purpose of the education in the field. The goal of this study is to apprehend the characteristics of the belief and the faith of the elementary teacher and of the university student who are preliminary elementary teachers, about the mathematics and the mathematical teaching and learning and also to figure out what differences those belief and faith shows as the year goes by. In order to find the characteristics of the belief and faith, we have set up three research-problems and have found the answers of that by analyzing the replies of several multiple choice questions and essay questions we have invested for. We also have collected several information through the interviews and inspection. As a result, we have analyzed and charted the outcome of the statistical analysis of the answers about each questions and have discussed the remarkable features of those results which showed significant changes in the belief of elementary teachers about the mathematics and mathematical teaching & learning after taking the courses of "Life & Mathematics".

초등교사의 수학과 수학 교수-학습에 대한 신념을 알아보고자 세 가지의 연구문제를 설정하였고, 연구문제의 해답을 찾기 위한 방법으로 선택형과 서술형 문항을 개발하여 설문 결과를 분석하였으며, 그 외에 면담과 관찰을 통하여 자료를 수집하였다. 연구 결과로서 각각의 문항에 대한 통계처리 자료를 일목요연하게 표로 나타내었고, 문항 별로 특이한 점에 대하여 논의를 하였다. 연구 결과 중 특이한 점은 "생활과 수학"과목을 수강한 후 수학에 대한 신념의 변화가 현저하게 나타남을 볼 수 있었다.