• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.415-442
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• 2010

If the philosophy of the curriculum is changed when the curriculum is revised, discussion about knowledge viewpoints in the changed philosophy is needed. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze elementary mathematics textbooks(EMT) based on the perspective of constructivism knowledge as basic philosophy of the 7th curriculum and the 2007 revised curriculum and to present aim of textbooks development through the results. According to the results, the number and operation units of 1st and 2nd grades of EMT compiled according to the 7th curriculum and the 2007 revised curriculum didn't reflect the perspective of constructivism knowledge as the philosophy of the curriculum. From the analysis, EMT were not composed so as to agree the perspective of constructivism knowledge that emphasize concepts, conceptua1 principles, variety, integration.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.299-308
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• 2005

This study attempts to analyze fifteen computer textbooks for the first and second grades in Korea. The textbooks were analyzed by content selection and organization. Evaluation criteria from previous works were selected for this computer textbook study. By analyses of current computer textbooks, some textbooks have a large volume for first and second grade students, and they do not provide enough integration with other subjects. Also, the textbooks provide various activities, practices, and teaching methods, but they do not provide examples of cooperative learning. They do not provide opportunities for individual learning, advanced learning, or remedial learning.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.183-201
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• 2005

Illustrations and letters are two components of school textbooks. In the case of low grades of elementary school, textbook's illustrations play an important role in learning because many parts of curriculums(lessons) are represented by the visual forms through illustrations. So elementary mathematics textbook's illustrations have to make clear mathematical concepts and principles by visual simplification and bring out of the interest and motivation of elementary school students' learning. In this paper, we analysed the external and content aspects of textbook's illustrations, focusing on the textbook of the second grade. We investigated number, kindness, size, ratio, and clearness of illustrations in regard to external aspects. On the aspects of content, we analysed the role of illustrations and the degree of agreement with contents. Also we classified types of error in the textbook's illustrations and presented examples of errors which was found.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.121-140
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• 2015

The purposes of this study were to analyze the duplicated contents of 'Consumer life' area of Technology & Home Economics and other subject textbooks for the middle and high school students. It focused on textbooks compiled following the 2009 revised curriculum. To achieve the purposes of this study, "Technology & Home Economics I II", "Social studies I II", and "Ethics I II"textbooks for middle school and "Technology & Home Economics", "Social studies", and "Life & Ethics" textbooks for high school were analyzed based on the criteria for analyses of 'Consumer life' area. The results were as follows. First, the analysis of duplicated contents in Technology & Home Economics and other subjects (Ethics, Social studies) for middle school revealed that Technology & Home Economics textbook had the most proportion of 'Consumer Life' area, followed by Social studies and Ethics. The duplicated content elements in Technology & Home Economics, Ethics, and Social studies textbooks for middle school were 'consumer decision making', 'consumer information', 'economic impact of consumption', 'food life and sustainability', and 'consumption and sustainability'. Secondly, as a result of the content analysis of textbooks for high school Technology & Home Economics, Social studies, and Life & Ethics according to the criteria of analysis, it was found that Technology & Home Economics textbook had the most proportion of 'Consumer Life' area, followed by Life & Ethics and Social studies. The "content elements" 'food life management and consumption environment', 'desire of consumption', 'economic impact of consumption', 'changing factors and characteristics of consumer culture', and 'consumption and sustainability' were commonly found in all three textbooks. In this way, the 'Consumer life' area of Technology & Home Economics is thought to play a central role in teaching the 'Consumer Life' area because of its strength that contains detailed contents about consumer life for adolescent consumers who will apply it to everyday life. Based on the result of this research, it is needed to consider articulation of 'Consumer life' area of secondary schools for the future curriculum development of Technology & Home Economics to reduce the duplicated contents and to help the adolescents develop the ability to solve consumption problems they may encounter in real life and grow up to be rational adult consumers.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.44-86
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• 2009

The major purposes of this study were 1) to present a desirable guideline for writers who would develop the new Introduction-to-Industry textbook through the comparative analysis of 4 different kinds of current Introduction-to-Industry textbooks, 2) to help educators, who make national college entrance exam in the vocational inquiry area, make good exam items with the results of the study, and 3) to offer effective methods of teaching and learning in the field of industrial education with them. Research method used in this study was mainly literature review with the scrutinization of the literature related to the Introduction-to-Industry textbooks. Results of this study showed that all textbooks compared do mostly comply with the national writer's specific guidelines for the Introduction-to-Industry textbooks. However there were varieties for the all textbooks in a sense of deployment balance for the contents of the textbook chapters. There were also considerable differences for the deployment of supplementary materials, evaluative materials, visual materials and etc. according to the characteristics of each textbook. The degree of the connectivity between the textbooks and the national college entrance exam in the area of the vocational inquiry was similar for the each textbook. However, it was not good enough for the students to study one textbook for the preparation of the exam in the vocational inquiry area because the problems in the exam were set in the range of covering the all different kinds of textbooks by the examiners.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.481-506
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• 2019

Perpendicularity and parallelity are important concepts in Mathematics as well as real-life contexts. However, those concepts are rather reduced in 2015 revised curriculum compared to previous 2009 revised curriculum. This study firstly analyzed teaching method related to perpendicularity and parallelity in a series of mathematics textbooks of Korea, Singapore and Japan. Moreover, the unit of perpendicularity and parallel was redesigned in a way to understand the concepts meaningfully and to give opportunities for students to explore how to make perpendicular and parallel lines. The results showed that noticeable changes has been as the curriculum was revised in Korea. Also, three countries showed some differences in concepts definition and learning activities. This study is expected to suggest implications for how to teach perpendicularity and parallelity in elementary school mathematics.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.273-285
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• 2023

Measurement in elementary school mathematics is one of the mathematical concepts that is directly used in real life. This study is based on the fact that mathematics textbooks for 3-4 and 5-6 graders were developed as the government designed and authorized textbooks and the general measurement instruction process is condensed and presented considering the limitation of the textbook's space for the capacity and weight. Its contents were analyzed. The results are as follows. The contents of authorized textbooks and government designed textbook are different in detail but similar overall in comparative activities, recognition, and situation of the need for the introduction of standard unit and estimation activities. Through this, it is proposed that efforts are needed to reform national textbook policies and develop textbooks that can highlight the meaning of each measurement activity and focus on students' activities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Community Living Science Conference
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• 2009.09a
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• pp.94-94
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• 2009

농업계고등학교 교과서는 농촌어메니티를 학습할 수 있는 최적의 교재로서 농촌어메니티 교육내용을 개발함으로써 청소년의 올바른 농업 농촌 가치관 형성 및 국민적 공감대 확산에 이바지하고자 한다. 대상 교과서는 농업계고등학교 교과서 39종으로 이루어졌으며, 연구방법으로는 우선적으로 1~5단계의 내용분석 척도를 설정하여(1단계는 어메니티 개념에 따라 반드시 수정이 필요한 내용, 2단계는 어메니티 개념에 따라 수정이 필요한 내용, 3단계는 어메내티 개념이 포함되었는지 판단할 때 크게 문제가 없는 내용, 4단계는 어메니티 개념이 포함되어 있는 좋은 내용, 5단계는 어메니티 개념이 포함되어 있는 교과서의 모델이 될 수 있는 내용) 판정하였다. 그 결과 1단계 어메니티 개념에 따라 반드시 수정이 필요한 내용을 선정하여 교과내용을 개발하였으며, 이는 어메니티 관점에 맞추어 실시하였다. 또한 내용분석을 통한 교과서 구분을 하여 A, B, C 유형으로 나타내었다. A유형은 내용분석의 결과 판정 1 또는 2의 분석 내용이 20개 이상 나온 교과서, B유형은 내용분석의 결과 판정 1 또는 2의 분석 내용이 10~19개 나온 교과서, C유형은 내용분석의 결과 평정 1또는 2의 분석 내용이 10개 미만으로 나온 교과서를 의미한다. 교과내용 개발 결과 총 262건의 교과내용 개발이 이루어졌으며, 문장 132개로 50.38%, 사진 105개 40.47%, 삽화 22개 8.35, 그래프 0.76%, 표 0.38% 등의 순서로 나타났다. 총 262개 개발내용중에서 '사회자원의 시설'부분에 대한 관점 77개로, '사회자원의 경제활동'에 대한 관점 64개, '문화자원의 경관'에 대한 관점 50개 순으로 집계되었다. 그 다음은 '자연자원의 자연'에 대한 관점이 47개, 문화자원의 역사'에 대한 관점이 9개, '사회자원의 공동체 활동'에 대한 관점이 14개 순으로 나타났다. 자연적 자원 18.31%, 문화적 자원 22,52%, 사회적 자원 관점이 59.16%로 '사회적 자원 관점이 가장 많은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 농업계고등학교 교과서에서는 농촌어메니티의 사회적 자원이 강조되어야 하며, 문화적 자원, 자연적 자원의 순서로 강조될 필요성이 있다는 것을 뜻한다. 즉 농촌어메니티개념의 확립을 이하여 현재 농업계 고등학교 교과서에서는 시설, 경제활동, 공동체활동 같은 '사회적 자원'을 보강하여 강조할 필요가 있음을 나타낸다.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.307-324
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• 2022

This study examined the content diversity of seven authorized science textbooks by comparing the characteristics of the science concept description and the contents of inquiry activities in the "weight of objects" unit. For each textbook, the flow of concept description content and the uniqueness of the concept description process were analyzed, and the number of nodes and links and words with high connections were determined using language network analysis. In addition, for the inquiry activities described in each textbook, the inquiry subject, inquiry type, science process skill, and uniqueness were investigated. Results showed that the authorized textbooks displayed no more diversity than expected in their scientific concept description method or their inquiry activity composition. The learning elements, inclusion of subconcepts, and central words were similar for each textbook. The comparison of inquiry activities showed similarities in their contents, inquiry types, and scientific process skills. Specifically, these textbooks did not introduce any research topics or experimental methods that were absent in previous textbooks. However, despite the fact that the authorized textbook system was developed based on the same curriculum, some efforts were made to make use of its strengths. Since the sequence of subconcepts to explain the core contents differed across textbooks, this explanation process was divided into several types, and although the contents of inquiry activities were the same, the materials for inquiry activities were shown differently for each textbook to improve and overcome the difficulties in the existing experiments. These findings necessitate the continuation of efforts to utilize the strengths of certified textbooks.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.4 no.7
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• pp.219-226
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• 2015

In this paper, we study the inquisitive tendency in informatics textbooks for middle school students. These textbooks were written in 2009, and have been adopted in 2013 as part of the curriculum. The research is based on six textbooks, which passed qualification tests, and is mainly focused on the section 'composition and movement of information equipment', which covers contents for the student's major field of study. Romey analysis was employed to analyze inquisitive tendency in four sections - text, data, activity and evaluation. The results illustrated that some textbooks were organized in a way that exhibited a low level of inquisitive tendency for students, and took an authoritative tone. The section 'activity' showed the highest level of inquisitive tendency and the 'text' showed the lowest level. Some sections in the textbooks were found to have zero Romey measures, which stress the need for improvement.