• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.480-493
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• 2005

The development of modem technology made people more aware of the importance of science education, which was followed by research on textbooks based on the new curriculum. This study compared physics textbooks that were published after the new curriculum started in 2000 and 2002 in Korea and Japan, respectively, and aimed to become a reference for further improvement of science curriculum and textbook reform. The results were as follows : 1. The number of teaching topics in Korean science textbook is greater than those in Japan. 2. In detail, the field of physics appeared to be relatively more important in Korea's textbooks, while it was the field of biology that was given more weight in textbooks in Japan. 3. The textbooks in Korea and Japan covered in more detail the concepts of 'power and energy' and 'electricity and magnetism', respectively. 4. The textbooks in Korea introduced the contents of magnetism initially, whereas their counterparts in Japan, the contents of light. As a whole, the contents of the science textbooks in Korea and Japan were very similar. However, more detailed concepts were included in Korea's textbooks, and therefore, Korea's textbooks seemed to have richer contents than Japan.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.928-937
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to analyze inquiry activities in high school chemistry II textbooks on the revised 2009 curriculum. It also compared them to the textbooks based on the 7th curriculum, which were published by the same companies. The results in this study turned out to be as follows: First, the number of the activities and rate of inquiry activities per total pages were quite different from each publisher, and all of them decreased. Second, there were too many activities for specific inquiry process elements. Third, the types of inquiry activities differ slightly between each publisher. Experimenting and thinking were the most used while practicing was the least. Fourth, in the inquiry context, activities in scientific context were prevalent and activities in usual context were the second most common. Comparing to the text book on the 7th curriculum, the use of technical-social context increased, however, the technical-social context as well as the natural-environmental context were not used enough, as they constitute less than 10% of the activities. From these results, chemistry teachers should introduce a variety inquiry activities in chemistry curriculum for resolving those problems. Also, textbook developer should accommodate the results of research about science textbooks.

• 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.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2012

Developing middle and high students' information literacy and creative problem-solving skills in this information-oriented society is very important and for this reason, the subject of informatics has been established. However, little research on creative problem solving literacy of informatics textbooks has been conducted. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to quantitatively analyze whether 'problem-solving methods and procedures' parts in informatics textbooks in middle schools present creative problem solving literacy or not and in what degree. Data were quantitatively analyzed using the Gil-Su Choi method. The result of data analysis indicated that all the textbooks turned out to be correct range in the category of the "composition of various learning activities," but got out of range in some categories such as "problem-solving process reflection" and "problem-solving strategy proposal". Also a few textbooks haven't satisfied in important indexes and activities. So, we suggest that more 'problem-solving process reflection' and 'problem-solving strategy proposal' parts should be included in the informatics textbook and more various forms of learning activities be utilized well as the ratio of activities needed primary and high mental processes be kept the balance.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.154-169
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• 2008

Geography textbooks often have treated the world as a collection of independent nations. Also, many scholars have warned of ethnocentric bias in geography textbooks. Global education that emphasizes world interdependence and pursues global perspectives offers some possibilities to go beyond the status quo of current World Geography textbooks. The primary objective of this study is to analyze current US World Geography textbooks in terms of global education. A secondary objective is to explore a framework for rereading World Geography textbooks critically. This interpretive qualitative case study indicates that US World Geography textbooks maintain an imperialist and American-centered perspective. Especially, the case of Korea shows that other places and people are underrepresented through dichotomy, negative attitude and exclusion, misconception and stereotyping, and simplification in textbooks. Therefore, we need to detect conscious and unconscious fallacy and bias, to understand the world view and experiences of underrepresented people, and to deal with controversial global issues from diverse perspectives through global perspectives and post-colonial perspectives of global education.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.99-119
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to examine the educational contents of home economics textbooks that solely focus on forming adolescent empowerment. For this, an in-depth content analysis was conducted on the home economics textbooks in Korea and the U.S. The main results of this study are summarized as follows: First, the 23 content elements, which are designed to build adolescent empowerment, were ascertained: nine intrapersonal empowerment elements such as the self-identity, nine interpersonal empowerment elements such as the communication, and five social empowerment elements such as the leadership. Second, based on the content elements selected from above, the textbooks in Korea were observed to deal with 58% of the 23 content elements, while those in the U.S. discussed 90% of the 23 content elements. Korean textbooks primarily focused on helping students understand major concepts, whereas the U.S. textbooks focused primarily on helping students make connections between major concepts and their life. Lastly, both countries put the least amount of weight on social empowerment content elements(Korea: 37%, U.S.: 70%).

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.61-77
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• 2013

Developing textbook evaluation criterion is as important as textbook development in education. Home economics subject has been involved in textbook evaluation since 1995, at which the first home economics textbook was under the national authorization system in South Korea. There has been little research on home economics textbook evaluation criterion even though there were more studies using textbook analysis. The purposes of this study were to explore the reason why subject perspectives were reflected on the textbook evaluation criterion, the relationships between the perspectives presented by national curriculum and technology home economics textbook evaluation criterion, and the future direction for developing textbook evaluation criterion. So this study was related to analyze practical arts(technology home economics) textbook evaluation criterion and the meaning of subject perspectives in textbook evaluation criterion, to drive perspectives consistently presented by the 2007 revised and 2011 revised national curriculum, to analyze the relationships between the perspectives in national curriculum and textbook evaluation criterion, and to provide the future direction for textbook evaluation criterion development. Textbook evaluation criterion is very important because it provides subject perspectives for developing textbook, delivers the core concepts and unique values of our subject, and provides the direction for teacher education. According to the analysis of both national curriculum, the perspectives such as management competency, life competency, practical experience, integrative competency for understanding individual and family, career and life planning, and life problem-solving were presented in this study. Implication for future research would be needed to develop the factors of textbook evaluation criterion based on the perspective presented by national curriculum.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.137-153
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• 2019

This study reviewed the Technology & Home Economics Education textbooks to examine if their illustrations would be appropriate for students' balanced view of gender. To this end, the textbooks of 'Technology & Home Economics Education 1 and 2' from 12 publishers (24 books in total) were analyzed focusing on the formative and content characteristics of illustrations in the textbooks. The results of this study is as follows. There were areas in the textbooks that may not be considered gender-equal. Although the textbooks have been improved to some extent from the previous versions, they still show gender stereotypes biased towards men. If students are constantly exposed to the prescriptive characteristics that are in favor of certain gender, they would find it difficult to develop their personality strengths, due to the gender role pressures. In order to help students cultivate sensitivity and activism toward the gender equality issues, it is important that the textbooks are gender-equal. To summarize, in order to suggest to students a balanced image of society with male and female cooperating with each other in diverse domains, it is deemed necessary to constantly examine and revise the textbooks for their gender stereotypic contents, and thereby, improve them for gender equality.

• School Mathematics
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.749-771
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to analyze mathematical tasks of Korea and the USA textbooks focused on conditions for parallelograms. In this study, structures of task, types of proof and reasoning, and levels of cognitive demand are investigated. The conclusion is as follows: First, with respect to structures of task, structures presented in the USA textbooks are more diverse. Second, with respect to types of proof and reasoning, Korea and the USA prefer IC task and DA task. And task types presented in the USA textbooks are more diverse. Third, with respect to levels of cognitive demand, in both Korea and the USA textbooks, PNC task and PWC task account most. And compared to the USA, Korea prefer algorithms. In addition, we find out implications for reconstruction of Korea textbook. It is as follows: First, with respect to structures of task and types of proof and reasoning, the diversity of composition needs to be raised. Second, with respect to levels of cognitive demand, the concentration in PNC task needs to be declined. And levels of cognitive demand on types of tasks need to be reconsidered. Third, with respect to tasks' topic and material, internal and external connectivities of mathematics need to be strengthened.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.181-204
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• 2014

This research aims to have some implications for revision of curriculum and textbooks by analysing connections between the 2009 revised national curriculum and its textbooks in elementary school mathematics. The results of analyses for 3~4 grades can be summarized in four aspects: Firstly, we noticed that the reconstructed achievement criteria were reflected properly in the textbooks except for use of calculators in 'Numbers and Operations'. Secondly, the analysis of connections between unit objectives of textbooks and the reconstructed achievement criteria suggests that 10 units must receive attention. Especially, the range of decimal numbers for adding and subtracting needs to be corrected. Thirdly, mathematical terms and symbols excluding 'unit fraction' were found in the textbooks. Finally, mathematical processes were also fully reflected in the textbooks. However 'simplifying' as a strategy for problem solving was only missing. This result shows good or poor connections between the curriculum and its textbooks, therefore it is expected to be used effectively to revise the national curriculum for mathematics and its textbooks.