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SSI Education and Scientific Literacy from a Lifelong Learning Perspective (평생학습적 시각을 통해 바라본 SSI 교육과 과학적 소양)

  • Park, Shin-Hee;Kim, Chan-Jong
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.61-75
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    • 2022
  • Recently, lifelong learning ability was newly proposed as scientific literacy, the goal of the science curriculum. To solve various science-related problems students encounter in life, lifelong learning abilities related to science beyond school science education are required, but empirical evidence shows that students can solve problems they actually face through scientific literacy. It is not easy to find in the existing science education research. In addition, there is a lack of discussion on how to cultivate lifelong learning ability suggested in the curriculum through school science education. In this study, attention was paid to SSI education as a method for students to cultivate lifelong learning ability through school science education and to develop their ability to solve science-related problems encountered in life. In this context, statements in the existing SSI education studies were reviewed to discover discourses related to lifelong learning, and their types and characteristics were distinguished. It was possible to confirm lifelong learning and its applicability with focus on science education research through this. For the study, 18 literature materials on the subject of SSI education were selected, and the discourses related to lifelong learning in the SSI education research were discovered by examining the statements revealed in the data. As a result of the study, there are four categories of discourses related to lifelong learning: 'awareness of science,' 'connection between science and everyday life', 'promotion of participatory citizenship', and 'construction of identity'. Various SSI education studies have already had lifelong learning perception in various contexts, and the four types of discourses related to lifelong learning could be linked to the four types of learning presented in the UNESCO Lifelong Learning Report. SSI education tends to view students' life experiences as part of their learning and aims to help students develop the character and capacity to make responsible decisions on social issues related to science and put them into practice. This competency can be continuously connected to the real-life of students outside of school as a lifelong learning ability. This study requires expanding the discourse related to lifelong learning in science education and operating and managing the overall educational system to foster students' lifelong learning ability.

Viewpoints and Limits of Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism to the Environmental Problem (인간중심주의와 생태중심주의의 환경문제에 대한 접근시각과 그 한계)

  • Lim, Hyung-Baek;Oh, Hae-Sub;Kim, Dae-Hee
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 1998
  • An environmental problem is the important issue of mankind. It should be treated main discourse in our period. There are many assertions related to environment but they are not to be clearly classified because of miscellaneous paradigm. It is possible to classify into two category on the basis of human attitude toward nature and environmental problem. One of them is anthropocentrism and the other is ecocentrism. This classification is helpful to understand various environmental discourses. Owing to different paradigm approach, anthropocentrism and ecocentrism have different concept for environmental problem. Anthropocentrism is powerful to the real life in behalf of economic rationalism. But ecocentrism is important for the only settlement of environmental problem in ecocentric perspectives. Therefore a new scheme for environmental problem solving is necessary through combining the merits of anthropocentrism and ecocentrism.

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Coherence Structure in the Discourse of Probability Modelling

  • Jang, Hongshick
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2013
  • Stochastic phenomena induce us to construct a probability model and structure our thinking; corresponding models help us to understand and interpret the reality. They in turn equip us with tools to recognize, reconstruct and solve problems. Therefore, various implications in terms of methodology as well as epistemology naturally flow from different adoptions of models for probability. Right from the basic scenarios of different perspectives to explore reality, students are occasionally exposed to misunderstanding and misinterpretations. With realistic examples a multi-faceted image of probability and different interpretation will be considered in mathematical modelling activities. As an exploratory investigation, mathematical modelling activity for probability learning was elaborated through semiotic analysis. Especially, the coherence structure in mathematical modelling discourse was reviewed form a semiotic perspective. The discourses sampled from group activities were analyzed on the basis of semiotic perspectives taxonomical coherence relations.

Korean University Students' Perceptions about Native and Non-native English Speaking Teachers in TEE Courses

  • Yang, Taesun
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.237-254
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    • 2011
  • This study investigated Korean university students' perceptions of NESTs (Native English Speaking Teachers) and NNESTs (Non-native English Speaking Teachers) in TEE (Teaching English through English) courses to examine strengths and weaknesses of NESTs and NNESTs. 100 university students who had an experience in taking TEE courses with both NESTs and NNESTs answered the questionnaire in which they were asked to answer questions of general area, language skills, affective areas, and teaching behaviors. 20 students out of them were also interviewed to consolidate the data. The results revealed that except for speaking ability, students did not express a strong preference for NESTs and they did have a preference in learning some specific skills. In terms of affective areas, students had a preference for NNESTs. In addition, there were differences in teaching behaviors of NESTs and NNESTs. These findings have valuable implications for NNESTs to improve their speaking proficiency: analyzing and participating in discourses, and monitoring teaching practice through videotaping.

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The Experiences of Family Caregiving in a Chronic Care Unit

  • Cho, Myung-Ok
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.35 no.8
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    • pp.1461-1475
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    • 2005
  • Purpose. The main purpose of this critical ethnography was to examines the process and discourses through which family caregivers experience while caring for their sick family member in a hospital. Methods. This was achieved by conducting in-depth interviews with 12 family caregivers, and by observing their caring activities and daily lives in natural settings. The study field was a unit for neurologic patients. Data was analyzed using taxonomy, discourse analysis, and proxemics. All research work was iteratively processed from March 2003 to December 2004. Results. Constant comparative analysis of the data yielded the process of becoming a successful family caregiver: encountering the differences and chaos as novice; constructing their world of skilled caregivers; and becoming a hospital family as experienced caregivers. During the process of becoming an experienced hospital family, the discourse of family centered idea guided their caring behaviors and daily lives. Conclusion. The paternalistic family caregivers struggled, cooperated, and harmonized with the patriarchal world of professional health care system. During this process of becoming hospital family, professional nurses must act as cultural brokers between the lay family caring system and the professional caring system.

An Exploration of Korean Discourses on Public Diplomacy

  • Ayhan, Kadir Jun
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2020
  • There is great confusion over what constitutes public diplomacy (PD), who its actors are, and the relevance of non-state actors. In the Korean context, in addition to the general fuzziness of the concept, linguistic peculiarities of the terms gonggong and gongjung both of which refer to public, waegyo, which is interchangeably used for international affairs, foreign policy and diplomacy, and juche which is simultaneously used for actor and agent, add more layers of confusion. While the term PD in Korea is based almost entirely on Western conceptualization, these linguistic peculiarities prevent fruitful conversations among scholars and practitioners on PD. Against this background, this research note explores and addresses conceptual ambiguities that pertains to PD and the policy discourse on the topic, particularly on non-state PD in Korea. The paper draws on Korean government's PD-related policy documents and Diplomatic White Papers and all relevant academic articles found in Korean-language journals registered in the Korean Citation Index (KCI), which are analysed to gain an understanding of the PD-related policy discourse in Korea.

The consideration of family policy through a discourse about modern motherhood (근대 모성담론을 통해 본 한국가족정책의 방향)

  • 서수경
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.40 no.8
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    • pp.137-152
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to analyse the discourses about modem motherhood in Western und Korean society in order to find a new basis for the family policy. The general view that motherhood is merely natural ceased to be valid since the early 1980ties. Nowadays one is rather inclined to define motherhood as a social, cultural and historical fact which goes far beyond the biological dimensions. The concept of motherhood which has been useful to fulfil the industralisation in the modem times cannot be applied to the changed world of our times. The family policy which is closely connected with women must not start from the modem motherhood ideology but from the context of the changed life of woman in our times. I hope that this study could contribute to stimulating the discourse about the family policy which takes into consideration the changed living conditions.

The Histories of the Mathematical Concepts of Infinity and Limit in a Three-fold Role (세 가지 역할과 관련된 무한과 극한의 수학사)

  • Kim, Dong-Joong
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.293-303
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to classify a three-fold role of the history of mathematics through epistemological analysis. Based on the history of infinity and limit, the "potential infinity" and "actual infinity" discourses are described using four different historical epistemologies. The interdependence between the mathematical concepts is also addressed. By using these analyses, three different uses of the history of mathematical concepts, infinity and limit, are discussed: past, present, and future use.

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A Study on the Social Informatics in Digital Library Studies (디지털도서관 연구를 위한 사회정보학)

  • 정경희
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2003
  • Through analyzing papers on digital libraries and the contexts of usage of the term, ‘digital library’, this study investigates that the professional discourses about digital libraries regard them digital technologies. But digital libraries need to be recognized as socio-technical networks which are constructed by social interaction between heterogeneous elements. The study suggested that Social Informatics and a STIN(Socio-Technical Interaction Network) model should be applied to understand and analyze digital libraries as socio-technical networks.

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Discoursive Analysis of Starcraft;Focused on Greimas's Semiotics (스타크래프트에 대한 담화분석;그레마스의 구조생성기호학을 중심으로)

  • Park, Tae-Soon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.135-145
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    • 2008
  • This paper tried to analyze Starcraft's multiplay by using especially Greimas's theory of discourse. Greimas's theory of semiotics is known as a useful tool of analyzing non-verbal text as well as verbal text. The discourse of Starcraft is continuously made by subject and anti-subject. This characteristic of discourse- not given completely made- is the prominent difference from discourses made from other media. The subject and anti-subject, as actively crossing the position of enunciator and enunciatee each other, dynamically make and complete the discourse.