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The Effects of 'MEETING WITH SCIENTISTS' Program on the Fifth Graders' Physical Images of Scientists  

Kim, Sung-Kwan (Gunam Elementary School in Pusan)
Jang, Myoung-Duk (Korea National University of Education)
Jeong, Jin-Woo (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.22, no.3, 2002 , pp. 490-498 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated the effects of the 'Meeting With Scientists' program on children's stereotypical images of scientist. To do those, 36 children of a fifth grade class participated in the program for one month. The program consisted of two main activities:(l) participating in scientists' lectures and exchanging e-mail with them; and (2) visiting web sites about scientist and science, and exchanging e-mail with scientists at the sites. The results of the study can be summarized as follows: First, after participating in the program, children showed the significant decrease of several stereotypical items, such as facial growth of hair(bald hair beard), symbols of research, and age of the scientist. Second, the most popular source of the images was the visual media at the pretest but the source was changed to the visiting and participating scientist's lecture, and internet at the posttest. The latter items appeared a significant difference between the pretest and the posttest, The results indicate that the program is effective to decrease of children's stereotypical physical image of scientist.
Keywords
images of scientist; meeting with scientists; source of image;
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