• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.267-282
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• 2022

This study aims to analyze the continuity and sequence between the intelligent life curriculum for grades 1-2 and the science curriculum for grades 3-4 with a focus on knowledge and inquiry process skills. The results demonstrate that contents related to science in the intelligent life curriculum consisted of only 10 out of 32 elements. Five elements were related to the science curriculum for grades 3-4 and limited to the 'life sciences' area. Particularly, the intelligent life curriculum did not address topics related to 'matter' and 'motion and energy'. Developmental connection was established in the 'life sciences' area and dramatic changes were noted for the topics related to 'earth and space' area. In terms of inquiry process skills, the levels of observation, measurement, inference, and communication naturally increased, whereas a developmental connection was noted between the intelligent life and science curricula. Classification can be viewed as a developmental link; however, viewing the classification as scientific from the epistemic perspectives was insufficient. In the case of expectation, a gap was observed in both curricula due to the absence of expectation activities in the intelligent life curricula. The study discussed the implications for securing the connection between the intelligent life and science curricula on the basis of these results.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.118-125
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• 2006

The purpose of the study was to research science gifted students' learning styles and perceptions on subject matter content. The data was collected from primary science and mathematics classes of a University Center for Science Gifted Education, science classes of a Metrocity Primary Gifted Education Institute, and classes of a normal school. The results of the study were that gifted students perceived the school curriculum much easier than non-gifted students did, ($X^2(4)=33.180$, p<.001), and that levels of interest in the content did not differ between the groups, but 34.6 percent of the total students responded that they found the content uninteresting. Gifted students did not see the content as being important compared to the non-gifted students, ($X^2(4)=12.443$, p<.05), and gifted students valued the methods used higher than the actual content of the textbook. The most helpful activities for their teaming that gifted students chose were projects, listening to teachers, and conducting experiments, amongst others. They also preformed 'teaming at their own speed in a mixed group'" for the study of social studies, science, and mathematics, whereas non-gifted students preformed teaming at the same speed. The two groups of science gifted students varied especially in their perceptions of most helpful activities. It is suggested that special programs for fulfilling gifted students' needs and abilities need to be developed and implemented.

• Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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• no.64
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• pp.1-11
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to analyze the scientific characteristics of speleology and to contribute to the scientific establishment of speleology. For this purpose, I analyzed the scientific specialty of speleology, the relation to other sciences and the scientific approaches. In conclusion, the speleology is the applied and synthetic science, so that the effective approach to the scientific establishment of speleology is to study by means of the organic and symmetric approach than the fragmentary and uniform approaches.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.517-524
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• 2002

The secondary science teachers' professional needs and their preference for training method between off-line and on-line education were investigated. A nation-wide survey was administered to 145 science teachers from 106 secondary schools. The respondents showed high demands on all items. The prominent need was to motivate students learning science. To the contrary. their need for learning more about history and philosophy of science was the lowest. Veteran teachers and high school teachers had higher demands on designing evaluation items, but nonveteran teachers on evaluating the effectiveness of their instruction and updating their scientific knowledge. Teachers preferred the online education as a training method for most items except laboratory activities.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.342-356
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• 2001

Integrated science for high school is required in the present Korean National Sixth Curriculum and the Seventh Curriculum which will be effective in 2002. Currently, most science teachers in secondary school have concerns about teaching integrated science subjects and this continues to raise a significant problem for practical implementation of integrated science education in schools. In this paper, we discuss two reasons for these concerns that our analysis revealed: 1) Science teachers do not understand how to implement integrated science education and 2) there are insufficient teaching-learning materials supporting integrated science. Three different approaches to integration that have been suggested to overcome the problem of implementation are outlined here. They are the knowledge centered, social problem centered, and individual interest centered approaches. Reported here are the first two steps we undertook in preparation for testing the relative effectiveness of these approaches. First, we analyzed the content of the Korean Sixth and Seventh National Science Curricula, seven Korean integrated science text books, the American National Science Education Standards, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Benchmarks looking for common themes. We identified in the analyzed materials the common themes: energy conservation, energy transformation, energy transport, energy degradation. We then used their energy related content to organize sets of concept structures, one set for each of the three approaches. These concept structures will provide the foundations for the development of integrated teaching-learning energy plans to be used in our research into the effectiveness of the approaches.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.117-150
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• 2007

This paper attempted a content analysis on the S&T comprehensive plans in Korea focusing on five-year plans. They include twelve plans from the 1st five-year plan for technological promotion($1962{\sim}1966$) to S&T basic plan in participatory government($2003{\sim}2007$). The result of content analysis on such plans was explained according to policy environments, formative system, policy goals, policy scopes, and policy subjects. In the case of policy subjects, this paper reconstructed nine policy categories such as national strategic technology development, S&T investment, S&T manpower, basic science research, private technology development, international S&T cooperation, regional S&T innovation, S&T infrastructure, and S&T culture. In conclusion, this paper proposed future directions for the making of S&T comprehensive plans in Korea.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.390-400
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to propose an improvement plan based on an analysis of the current earth science teacher education curriculum in the department of education in the four fields of teaching profession theory: student-teacher practice, subject lesson education, and subject content education. The following are the conclusions and suggestions of this study. In case of teaching profession theory, too much emphasis is put on pedagogical theory over practical issues, and a problem arises upon completion. Therefore, it is sugguest that teaching profession theory might be completed before subject lesson education to ensure more authentic subjects performing teaching profession. The current term for student-teacher training is too short to understand the whole school system. Current school system does not have any off-job training course or internship system. Therefore, student-teacher training term should be increased by at least $3{\sim}6$ months to play a vital role in the current system. The credit number of subject lesson education is too small compared with subject content education. Consequently, the credit number of subject lesson education should be increased, and more professor majored in subject lesson education should be recruited. Significant deviation between the content of subject content education and that of middle school grade exists, and there is also much difference in the ratio of subject according to university. To get rid of these problems, subject content education should be connected with subject lesson education and appropriate number of credit needs to be assigned to each subject domain.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.263-271
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• 2017

Teacher reeducation is required to be comfortable with the 'Integrated science' subject as introduced in the 2015 revised curriculum. In this research, we designed in-service teacher training programs according to the types of secondary school science teacher's certificates, and developed ways to improve in-service science teachers' competencies. Through Delphi surveys with 22 science education experts, we investigated the features of the 2015 revised 'Integrated science' curriculum in light of its characteristics, purposes, contents system, contents, and so on, and explored teachers' competencies to teach the subject. Based on the analysis of the features of each type of secondary school science teachers' certification and required teacher competencies for teaching 'Integrated science', we developed three types of teacher training programs: in-service training courses for understanding the 2015 revised 'Integrated science' (Type A), in-service training courses for 'Integrated science' (Type B), and in-service teacher training certificate program for 'Integrated science' (Type C). For each teacher training program, we suggested the target of the training program in light of teacher certificates, operation systems, and ways to organize the program. In addition, we also suggested ways to improve 'Integrated science' teacher education programs for pre-service as well as in-service teachers, and examined ways to improve educational requirements for qualification in 'Integrated science' teaching based on the opinions of experts. Discussed in the conclusion are ways to design in-service teacher training programs for 'Integrated science' teaching and ways to improve 'Integrated science' teacher training.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.33 no.11 s.378
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• pp.88-90
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• 2000

이 책은 생물학ㆍ정치학ㆍ철학ㆍ물리학ㆍ진화심리학ㆍ언어학ㆍ정신분석학ㆍ경제학ㆍ인류학ㆍ기호학ㆍ문학평론ㆍ인공두뇌 등 각 분야의 세계적인 석학 30인들의 21세기 전망서다. 그들은 2100년까지 어떤 학문적인 돌파구가 마련되며 그것이 우리 사회에 어떤 영향을 미칠 것인가에 화두의 초점을 맞춰 대부분 구체적인 예를 들어 정확한 언어로 먼 미래를 예측하였다. 내용이 방대하기 때문에 이미 현대생활에 큰 영향을 미치고 있는 정보기술, 생명과학분야를 요약한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.99-107
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• 1989

이 글은 1989년 9월 4일부터 9일까지 홍콩대학에서 있었던 국제회의 결과 보고서이다. 유네스코가 후원한 이 회의에는 20여개국에서 28명이 참석하였으며, 모든 참석자가 country paper를 발표하고 주제에 관련된 토의를 거쳐 최종 보고서를 작성하였다. 학교교육 밖에서 과학기술의 대중화를 위한 방안을 모색해보는 새로운 내용이라서 그 전문을 소개한다.