• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.215-223
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• 2017

This study aims to find an effective way to present essential science concepts in national science curriculum through international comparisons. Next Generation Science Standard (US), Ontario Science Curriculum (Canada), Australia Science Curriculum, and British/English Science Curriculum were selected for comparison. In science curriculum documents, these countries used terms such as 'Key ideas,' 'Big ideas,' 'Key concepts,' 'Disciplinary core ideas.' and 'Fundamental concepts' to present essential concepts of science. This study reviewed the characteristics of the meaning, the status, and the role of essential concepts country by country. The result shows essential concepts have been used with different meanings and statutes in each case. Furthermore, various roles were performed through essential concepts in order to organize their science curriculum. From these foreign nation's cases, this study proposes several ways to present essential science concepts based on results. First, interdisciplinary integrated concepts were needed to organize an integrated science curriculum. In science curriculum documents of the United States, Canada, Australia and England, two types of terms were used in order to structuralize an integrated science curriculum. Second, essential concepts should include concepts related with function and value as well as scientific knowledge. Third, essential concepts need to be presented in such a way as to show specific contexts. Therefore, selecting appropriate contents and structure are needed to be able to improve the way to present essential concepts in Korea's educational environment.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.117-126
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• 2002

Many students have some misconception on electric current, and they are not corrected easily by traditional instruction. In this paper, a multimedia title was developed for misconception correction on electric current, and applied to the students and investigated its effects. The subject of this study consists of 32 students of a middle school. The group is divided into two subgroups. the applied group and the compared group. each of which has 16 students. The achievement is estimated by t-test using SPSS. The result shows that current consumption concept was corrected easily and it had no relation with instruction methods. Educational multimedia title was especially effective in the class to correct the misconception of current distribution concept. It was difficult to correct current independent of resistance concept by the multimedia title.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.163-190
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• 2018

The citizen-initiative has been frequently mentioned in community building project which is being promoted by Seoul City. The citizen-initiative has become an important concept in the direction of community welfare efforts. However, this concept has not been defined clearly in social welfare. In this context, the purpose of this study is to find how the practitioners of the social welfare practice field recognize the concept of citizen-initiative. In this study, concept mapping method was used to generate 59 statements about the citizeninitiative in 10 social workers in Seoul. Multidimensional scaling analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis are used to do mapping and grouping the 59 statements. The results are as follows. A total of 6 categories were derived. The six categories are named "Inducement of Participation", "Practice", "Procedure", "Awareness and Interest extension", "Expression of Opinion", "Attitude and Emotion". "Practice" category was revealed as a core category in the concept of citizen-initiative. This study is meaningful as a first step to discuss "what is the citizen-initiative?" and to make consensus in social welfare academic area and practice field.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.297-326
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was firstly to analyse the conceptualization of disability of the Mental Health Act and related laws and to suggest revision of the definition of psychiatric disability of Mental Health Act to improve the protection of human rights and welfare of the people with psychiatric disability. For these purposes this paper reflected on the disability models of WHO(1980, 2001) and multiple paradigm of disability of Priestley(1998) and suggested a new conceptualization of disability consists of impairment, functional disability, and social interactional disability. Based on the analyses of conceptualizations of psychiatric disability of related laws, this study suggested revision of Mental Health Act to distinguish between mental disorder and psychiatric disability, to introduce the definition of mental capacity, and to expand the conceptualization of social interactional disability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.54-64
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to analyze the cliche for English-Korean interpretation and translation with special reference to the cliche based on the Holy Bible texts. Cliches are figurative or literal expressions and are overused expressions in various different cultures. In addition, cliches are languages, a tool of communication in an appealing way. Therefore, cliches are must be clearly distinguished from the term of idioms that are figurative phrases with an implied meaning; the phrase is not to be taken literally. Also, cliches are the single most important factor that characterizes socioculturally. Through this empirical analysis on cliches we see that this study has conceptualized the meaning of cliche. Based on this result, I expect that anyone who researches English-Korean interpretation and translation field should be concerned about cliches. I hope this study will be a guide to the right uses of cliches in English language fields.

• Archives of design research
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• v.19 no.5 s.67
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• pp.75-84
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• 2006

The aims of this study are to examine the conceptual contents of space diagram, and to find its elements and practical applications by analyzing the UN Studio. The Findings of this study are as follows: firstly, the conceptual contents represented in space diagram are classified into four elements - motif, flow, relationship, and distribution. Secondly, space diagram is used in program development, schematic design, and preliminary design of design process phases. Thirdly, the elements based on the case diagrams include five elements: context analysis, object analysis, time-behavior analysis, modeling analysis, and space analysis. Fourthly, in practical use, diagrams with motif concept is usually used in modeling analysis, and diagram with flow concept is commonly used in the analysis of time-behavior and object. Diagrams with relationship concept is mostly used in space analysis, secondly in analysis of context and modeling. Further, diagrams with distribution concept is usually used in space analysis. If one uses these findings for design projects in practical business or education, it would be helpful in design conception and development as well as of design information structuralization.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.59-79
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to make an analysis of the conceptual diagrams of early childhood teachers about education for happiness in an effort to suggest the possibility and guidelines of this education. The subjects in this study were 100 teachers at kindergartens and daycare centers located in the city of Busan and South Gyeongsang Province. Out of them, 50 teachers each were selected from the kindergartens and the daycare centers. The conceptual diagrams drawn up by the early childhood teachers were analyzed to find out the numbers of superordinate concept, the number of content element, characteristics, hierarchy and density. The findings of the study were as follows: First, as for the content of education for happiness, superordinate concepts appeared 364 times in the conceptual diagrams of the kindergarten teachers, and there were 21 superordinate concepts overall in their diagrams. Second, concerning the content of education for happiness, superordinate concepts appeared 296 times in the conceptual diagrams of the daycare center teachers, and there were 18 superordinate concepts in total. The findings of the study showed that the kindergarten teachers had a better knowledge on the concept of education for happiness than the daycare center teachers, and that there was a difference between the two groups in what they considered valuable in relation to the content of education for happiness.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.283-309
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate gifted students in elementary mathematics how they understand of situations involving multiplication and concepts of multiplication. For this purpose, first, this study analyzed the teacher's guidebooks about introducing the concept of multiplication in elementary school. Second, we analyzed multiplication problems that gifted students posed. Third, we interviewed gifted students to research how they understand the concepts of multiplication. The result of this study can be summarized as follows: First, the concept of multiplication was introduced by repeated addition and times idea in elementary school. Since the 2007 revised curriculum, it was introduced based on times idea. Second, gifted students mainly posed situations of repeated addition. Also many gifted students understand the multiplication as only repeated addition and have poor understanding about times idea and pairs set.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.456-464
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• 2007

The aims of this research are to analyze the representations and conceptual sequence of eye vision in Korean science textbooks and to suggest a contents construct about eye vision where the conceptual sequence is considered. Research method was literature review, and the literatures that were used for analysis were the 7th Korean science curriculum which was revised in 1997, and the science and physics textbooks developed based on the 7th Korean science curriculum. The research results are as follows: 1) Although the science curriculum seems to have no problem on sequence in the eye vision concepts, the science and physics textbooks based on the curriculum reveal problems on the sequence in the eye vision concepts; 2) Some Korean science textbooks explain retinal image formation according to the Alhazen's idea, except in inverse image; 3) Some Korean science textbooks explain about the reasons of near- and far-sightedness without consistency between the textbooks for 7th and 8th grade students; 4) A few Korean science textbooks give an inappropriate explanation about the principle of eye sight correction by eye glasses; 5) According to the analysis result, the concepts related to eye vision should be presented in the order of explanation about light refraction phenomena, image formation process by convex lens, structure of human eye and retinal image formation process, correction of eye sight using lens.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2006

목적 지향 대화에서, 사용자의 의도는 화행(speech acts)과 개념열(concept sequences)로 나타낼 수 있다. 화행은 대화의 영역과는 상관없이 표현되는 정보이고, 개념열은 영역과 깊은 관련을 지닌 정보이다. 대화시스템에서 화행과 개념열로 구성되는 사용자의 의도를 정확히 파악하는 것은 시스템이 사용자의 발화에 정확히 응대하는 데에 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 일정관리 영역에서의 대화를 대상으로 화행과 개념열을 분류하고 신경망을 사용하여 이들을 분석한다. 화행과 개념열로 구성되는 의도 분석에 사용하는 자질은 크게 문맥 자질과 문장 자질로 분류되며, 문장자질은 카이제곱 통계량을 사용하여 사용자의 의도 분석에 효과적인 자질만을 선택하여 사용하고 문맥자질로는 이전 발화에 대한 정보를 활용한다. 신경망을 사용하여 사용자 의도 분석을 수행한 결과 성능이 우수함을 알 수 있었다.