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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2017.37.4.651

Analysis of Relevance of Korean and Foreign Science Curricula and Invention  

Son, Jeongwoo (Gyeongsang National University)
Lee, Bongwoo (Dankook University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.37, no.4, 2017 , pp. 651-658 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the invention-related content of foreign science curricula and investigate the perception of science educators about the degree of relevance between science curriculum and invention. For the analysis of foreign science curricula, we investigated the programs of 10 nations, including the US, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, France, Finland and China. To analyze the relevance between Korean science curriculum and invention, we examined common topics such as science, integrated science, and science inquiry experiment, and investigated that the elements related to invention education were included in each 'achievement standard' and 'teaching and evaluation methods'. Science educators including science teachers were asked to evaluate the degree of relevance of invention education. The results were as follows. First, science curricula in many countries contained invention-related content. Second, science educators recognized that invention education was related to science curriculum, but the systematic connection was insufficient. Third, because it is mainly limited to the results of designing and device design, they recognized that the relevance of invention education, which focuses on various processes such as problem design, inventive techniques and intellectual property, was not revealed. Therefore, it is necessary to be process-oriented when developing invention education teaching-learning methods and related materials in science education for the future.
Keywords
invention; science education; science technology; achievement standards; science curriculum;
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