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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2022.42.6.567

Case Study on Teaching Practice for Biological Adaptation of Elementary School Teachers: Focus on the Influence of Teacher's Guide and Teachers' Understanding and Belief of Biological Evolution  

Mili, Lim (Donghwa Elementary school)
Heeyoung, Cha (Korea National University of Education)
Gill Woo, Shin (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.42, no.6, 2022 , pp. 567-578 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we examine whether the description of the elementary science curriculum guide, the concept of evolution, and the beliefs of teachers affect the teaching practice in classes related to adaptation of elementary school teachers. First, we examined the alternative concept among the sentences described in the bio-adaptation-related unit of the 2009 Elementary Science Curriculum Teacher's Guide and identified the effects of this description on the teaching practice of elementary school teachers. Next, six elementary school teachers were classified according to the results of the evolutionary concept test paper and the evolutionary belief test paper, and based on the class recording data and interview data, whether there is a difference in teaching execution. As a result, it was confirmed that there were a total of 18 descriptions corresponding to the concept of evolutionary alternatives in the analysis of instruction descriptions, and that these descriptions influenced elementary school teachers' adaptation concepts and teaching practice. Next, the group with high and low levels of evolution differ in the areas of "recognition of importance in the unit, distinction between adaptation concepts in the general sense and adaptation concepts in the biological sense, errors in the class," and "recognition of evolutionary education needs in the elementary curriculum." This study is meaningful in that it qualitatively confirms the research on the evolution concept of elementary school teachers, which has been approached quantitatively, and in-depth, confirms how the description, evolution concepts, and evolutionary beliefs affect elementary school teachers' biological adaptation concepts.
Keywords
Biological adaptation; Alternative concept; Biological evolution concept; Biological evolution belief;
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