DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

과학적 설명 구성 도구를 통한 초등 예비교사의 설명 수준 변화와 도구의 어포던스 탐색

Changes in Explanatory Levels of Elementary Pre-service Teachers through a Scientific Explanation Construction Tool and Exploration of Its Affordances

  • 김종욱 (서울길동초등학교) ;
  • 임성은 (서울대학교 교육종합연구원)
  • Kim, Jong-Uk (Seoul Gil-dong Elementary School) ;
  • Lim, Sung-Eun (Center for Educational Research, Seoul National University)
  • 투고 : 2023.10.13
  • 심사 : 2023.11.01
  • 발행 : 2023.11.30

초록

과학적 설명 구성은 과학의 본질적 실행임에도 불구하고 교사들은 과학적 설명의 형식적 구조에 익숙하지 않으며 좋은 과학적 설명을 평가하는 기준 역시 지니고 있지 못한 경우가 많다. 그에 따라 본 연구는 과학적 설명의 개념을 명료히 하고 과학적 설명 구성을 안내할 수 있는 과학적 설명 구성 도구를 제안하고 이 도구가 예비교사들의 응결 현상에 대한 설명 수준 변화에 미치는 영향을 탐색하였다. 연구 결과 총 네 단계의 설명 구성 수준 중 상당수의 예비교사는 사전에 기술(description) 수준에 머물렀으나 이 도구의 활용을 통해 연관적(associative) 수준 이상의 설명을 구성하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 이 도구는 예비교사들이 현상을 설명하기 위한 개념적 틀을 정립하고 논리적 설명과 미시적 해석을 이끄는 어포던스를 지니는 것으로 분석되었다. 이 연구는 예비교사들이 과학적 설명에 대한 형식과 준거를 이해하고 이를 자신의 설명 구성에 적용할 수 있음을 보여주었다는 점에서 의의를 지닌다. 앞으로 다양한 주제와 분과 영역에서 예비교사들의 과학적 설명 수준 향상을 위한 노력이 수반되어야 할 것이며, 나아가 예비교사들에게 실제적인 환경 속에서 학생들이 과학적 설명을 구성할 수 있도록 장려하는 수업 경험을 제공할 필요가 있다.

While scientific explanation is a fundamental component of science, teachers often lack familiarity with the formal structure of scientific explanations and the criteria for assessing their quality. Consequently, this study aims to clarify the concept of scientific explanation and proposes a tool for constructing scientific explanations. The primary objective is to explore the tool's impact on enhancing the explanatory skills of pre-service teachers when it comes to the phenomenon of condensation. The research findings indicate that many pre-service teachers initially operated at a description level during the pre-test. However, the implementation of the tool enabled them to advance their explanatory skills beyond the associative level. Notably, the tool was analyzed for its ability to provide pre-service teachers with a conceptual framework for explaining phenomena and guiding logical explanations and micro-level interpretations. This study holds significance in demonstrating that pre-service teachers can comprehend the formalities and criteria of scientific explanations and apply them to enhance their own explanatory abilities. Moving forward, efforts should be made to enhance the scientific explanation level among pre-service teachers across various topics and subject areas. Furthermore, pre-service teachers need classroom experiences that foster the construction of scientific explanations in authentic contexts.

키워드

참고문헌

  1. 교육부(2022). 과학과 교육과정. 교육부 고시 제2022-33호 [별책 9]. https://www.edunet.net/nedu/ncicsvc/listSub2022Form.do?menu_id=861
  2. 김유신(1999). 과학적 설명. 현대 과학철학의 문제들, 대우학술총서 공동연구(pp. 145-219). 아르케.
  3. 김종욱(2022). 공간적 사고 관점에서 천문 분야 교과서 삽화 및 탐구활동에 대해 예비교사가 인식한 문제점과 개선안. 초등과학교육. 41(3), 501-520.
  4. 맹승호, 이기영, 박영신, 이정아, 오현석(2014). 순위 선다형 문항을 이용한 천문 시스템 학습 발달과정 개발 및 타당화 연구. 한국과학교육학회지. 34(8), 703-718. https://doi.org/10.14697/JKASE.2014.34.8.0703
  5. 백성혜, 박영주(2002). 초등⋅중등학교 과학교과서에서 나타난 열, 온도 개념에 대한 분석. 한국과학교육학회지, 22(1), 478-489.
  6. 오필석(2007). 중등학교 지구과학 교사들의 과학적 설명: 논리적 형식과 담화적 특징 분석. 한국과학교육학회지, 27(1), 37-49.
  7. 이정아, 이기영, 박영신, 맹승호, 오현석(2015). 초등학교 태양계와 별 수업에서 나타나는 공간적 사고 사례 연구. 한국과학교육학회지, 35(2), 179-197. https://doi.org/10.14697/JKASE.2015.35.2.0179
  8. 장진아, 박준형, 박지선(2023). 공기 압력에 대한 초등영재 학생들의 과학그리기 및 과학글쓰기에서 구성된 과학적 설명과 어포던스 분석: 다중모드적 표상의 교육적 활용. 초등과학교육, 42(1), 161-177.
  9. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015). Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. Retrieved from https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/science
  10. Achinstein, P. (1983). The nature of explanation. Oxford University Press.
  11. Alameh, S., Abd-El-Khalick, F., & Brown, D. (2023). The Nature of Scientific Explanation: Examining the perceptions of the nature, quality, and "goodness" of explanation among college students, science teachers, and scientists. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 60(1), 100-135. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21792
  12. Alameh, S., & Abd-El-Khalick, F. (2018). Towards a philosophically guided schema for studying scientific explanation in science education. Science & Education, 27, 831-861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-018-0021-9
  13. Berland, L. K., & Reiser, B. J. (2009). Making sense of argumentation and explanation. Science Education, 93, 26-55. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.20286
  14. Beyer, C. J., & Davis, E. A. (2008). Fostering second graders' scientific explanations: A beginning elementary teacher's knowledge, beliefs, and practice. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17(3), 381-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508400802222917
  15. Braaten, M., & Windschitl, M. (2011). Working toward a stronger conceptualization of scientific explanation for science education. Science Education, 95(4), 639-669. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.20449
  16. Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2016). Thematic analysis. In E. Lyons & A. Coyle (Eds.), Analysing qualitative data in psychology (pp. 84-103). Sage.
  17. Brockriede, W., & Ehninger, D. (1960). Toulmin on argument: An interpretation and application. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 46(1), 44.
  18. Carlson, J., & Daehler, K. (2019). The refined consensus model of pedagogical content knowledge in science education. In A. Hume, R. Cooper, & A. Borowski (Eds.), Repositioning Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Teachers' Knowledge for Teaching Science. (pp.77-92). Springer.
  19. De Andrade, V., Freire, S., & Baptista, M. (2019). Constructing scientific explanations: A system of analysis for students' explanations. Research in Science Education, 49, 787-807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-017-9648-9
  20. Friedman, M. (1974). Explanation and scientific understanding. Journal of Philosophy, 71, 5-19. https://doi.org/10.2307/2024924
  21. Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory. Sage.
  22. Grossman, P. L. (1990). The Making of a Teacher: Teacher Knowledge and Teacher Education. Teachers College Press.
  23. Grotzer, T. A. (2003). Learning to understand the forms of causality implicit in scientifically accepted explanations. Studies in Science Education, 39(1), 1-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057260308560195
  24. Haefner, L. A., & Zembal-Saul, C. (2004). Learning by doing? Prospective elementary teachers' developing understandings of scientific inquiry and science teaching and learning. International Journal of Science Education, 26, 1653-1674. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950069042000230709
  25. Halliday, M. A. K. (1993). On the Language of Physical Science. In M. A. K. Halliday & J. R. Martin (Eds.), Writing science: Literacy and discursive power (pp. 54-68). University of Pittsburgh Press.
  26. Halliday, M. A. K., & Matthiessen, C. M. (2013). Halliday's introduction to functional grammar. Routledge.
  27. Hempel, C., & Oppenheim, P. (1948). Studies in the logic of explanation. Philosophy of Science, 15, 135-175. https://doi.org/10.1086/286983
  28. Ladyman, J. (2003). 과학철학의 이해. (박영태 역). 이학사. (원저출판 2002)
  29. McCain, K. (2015). Explanation and the nature of scientific knowledge. Science & Education, 24, 827-854. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-015-9775-5
  30. McCain, K. (2022). Why explanation matters in science. In understanding How Science Explains the World. (pp. 1-12). Cambridge University Press.
  31. McNeill, K. L., & Krajcik, J. (2008). Scientific explanations: Characterizing and evaluating the effects of teachers' instructional practices on student learning. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 45(1), 53-78. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.20201
  32. National Research Council. (2007). Taking science to school: Learning and teaching science in grades K-8. Committee on Science Learning, Kindergarten through Eighth Grade. In R. A. Duschl, H. A. Schweingruber, & A. W. Shouse (Eds.), Boar d on Science Education, Center for Science Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. The National Academies Press.
  33. National Research Council. (2012). A framework for K-12 science education: Practices, crosscutting concepts, and Core ideas. The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13165
  34. Newsome, J. (1999). Pedagogical content knowledge: An introduction and orientation. In J. Gess-Newsome & N. G. Lederman (Eds.). Examining pedagogical content knowledge: The construct and its implications for science teaching (pp. 3-17). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  35. NGSS Lead States. (2013). Next generation science standards: For states, by states. Retrieved from http://www.nextgenscience.org/
  36. Osborne, J. F., & Patterson, A. (2011). Scientific argument and explanation: A necessary distinction? Science Education, 95, 627-638. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.20438
  37. Putra, G. B. S., & Tang, K. S. (2016). Disciplinary literacy instructions on writing scientific explanations: A case study from a chemistry classroom in an all-girls school. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 17(3), 569-579. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RP00022C
  38. Rappa, N. A., & Tang, K. S. (2018). Integrating disciplinary-specific genre structure in discourse strategies to support disciplinary literacy. Linguistics and Education, 43, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2017.12.003
  39. Ruiz-Primo, M. A., Li, M., Tsai, S. P., & Schneider, J. (2010). Testing one premise of scientific inquiry in science classrooms: Examining students' scientific explanations and student learning. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 47(5), 583-608. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.20356
  40. Salmon, W. C. (1989). Four decades of scientific explanation. University of Minnesota Press.
  41. Shulman, L. S. (1987). Knowledge and teaching: Foundations of the new reform. Harvard Educational, 57(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.57.1.j463w79r56455411
  42. Tang, K. S. (2015). The PRO instructional strategy in the construction of scientific explanations. Teaching Science, 61(4), 14-21.
  43. Tang, K. S. (2023). 대화하는 과학 교실: 과학 교수학습을 위한 담화 전략. (이정아, 장진아, 박준형 역). 학이시습. (원저출판 2021)
  44. Tang, K. S., & Rappa, N. A. (2021). The r ole of metalanguage in an explicit literacy instruction on scientific explanation. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 19, 1311-1331.
  45. Windschitl, M., Thompson, J., & Braaten, M. (2008). How novice science teachers appropriate epistemic discourses around model-based inquiry for use in classrooms. Cognition and Instruction, 26(3), 310-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370000802177193
  46. Woodward, J. F., & Ross L. N., (2021). Scientific Explanation. In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2021 Edition). Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/scientific-explanation/
  47. Yang, H. T., & Wang, K. H. (2014). A teaching model for scaffolding 4th grade students' scientific explanation writing. Research in Science Education, 44, 531-548. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-013-9392-8
  48. Yao, J. X., Guo, Y. Y., & Neumann, K. (2016). Towards a hypothetical learning progression of scientific explanation. Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41029-016-0007-3
  49. Zangori, L., & Forbes, C. T. (2014). Scientific practices in elementary classrooms: Third-grade students' scientific explanations for seed structure and function. Science Education, 98(4), 614-639.