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Yet Another Paradigm Shift?: From Minds-on to Hearts-on  

Song, Jin-Woong (Seoul National University)
Cho, Sook-Kyoung (Korea Science Foundation)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.24, no.1, 2004 , pp. 129-145 More about this Journal
Abstract
Since science was first taught in schools, maybe during the 18th century, school science education has experienced many substantial changes in its goals and nature over the period. The historical changes are usually referred to by some key terms, like, mechanics' institutes, object lessons, heuristics, general science, inquiry, STS, misconceptions. To characterize these changes, science educators frequently use some slogan-like analogies, referring to parts of the human body to indicate the movement of science education during a particular period of time: for example, 'Hands-On' for inquiry movement during 1960s-70s, 'Minds-On' for constructivist movement during 1980s-90s. In this paper, we briefly summarize the overall historical development of science education in Britain, then further expand the analogies to cover the overall process, that is, Ears-On ${\to}$ Eyes-On ${\to}$ Hands-On ${\to}$ Minds-On. To illustrate future directions of the 21st century, we propose a new analogy, 'Hearts-On', and also discuss the meanings and implications of a 'Hearts-On' analogy by illustrating how this new paradigm can be applied to reflect various current trends of science education, particularly in Korea. In addition, a parallel historical change between school science and science museums & centres is discussed.
Keywords
Hearts-on; Minds-on; Hands-on; Eyes-on; Ears-on; paradigm of science education; science museum;
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