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The Analysis of Inquiry Activities in High School Chemistry II Textbooks on the Revised 2009 Curriculum (2009 개정 교육과정 화학II 교과서의 탐구 활동 분석)

Kim, Jiyoung;Han, Jae-Eun;Park, Jongseok
- 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.
https://doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2012.32.5.928 인용 PDF KSCI