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The Current Status and Educational Requirements for Genetics Curriculum at Nursing Institutions (간호교육에서의 유전학 교육과정 현황과 요구)

  • Hong, Hae-Sook;Byeon, Young-Soon;Na, Yeon-Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.13-22
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze current educational requirements related to genetics curriculum(from June 2002 to September 2002) established at nursing institutions and to provide the basic data for the development of genetics science program at the undergraduate. Subjects of this study were comprised of twenty-three colleges of nursing in 4-year baccalaureate and thirty colleges in 3-year diploma programs. The results of this study were as follows : 1) 32 colleges offer courses related to genetics. 29 among 32 colleges have that integrated. Three schools have established completely independent courses of genetics. 21 colleges do not have any courses dealing with genetics. 2) The contents of courses related to genetics include: Congenital abnormalities, chromosomal aberrations, congenital metabolic disease, prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling, genes and chromosomes, immune genetics, blood type and genetics, rule of genetics, variation in gene expression, the map of the human gene, gene linkage genetics, interaction of genes, single inheritance in order and genetic biochemistry. 3) For course credit, 14colleges(48.3%) offered at most 1 credit per course. The grade of student who can take the course, 51.7% were in their second year while 37.9% were in their third year. The majors of nursing faculty who taught the course were nursing(51.7%) and basic nursing science(17.2%). 4) As far as the need of opening the courses related to genetics, 36 colleges(67.0%) have made a 'need', 12 schools(22.6%) state 'dose not need'. 711e reason for need were the following development of bio engineering, increase number of patients who are related to genetics, recognition of the need in clinical nursing. 7 schools(13.2%) agreed to offer independent course in genetics but 39 schools(73.6%) are in disagreement with that. When the school offers the course with other courses, 27 schools(50.0%) are opening basic nursing science and 14 schools(26.4%) are opening nursing as an integrated courses. If the name of course was either genetic nursing(34.0%) or genetics(28.3%), the credits for the course was one or 2 credits. 33 schools(62.3%) students were in the first or second years. 41 schools(84.9%), the majors of the faculty who had taught the course were either basic nursing science(35.8%), nursing(28.3%) or basic medicine(24.5%). The contents of the course should include in that order: Chromosome aberrations, prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling, congenital metabolic disease, congenital abnormalities, genes and chromosomes, the rules of genetics, immune genetics, interaction of genes, variation in gene expression, etc. The results and discussions of the study indicate that the entire curriculums need to be investigated with respect to contents of education, nursing curriculums and name of courses because of the increasing need of knowledge related to genetics in the clinical practice.

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Suggesting a New Curriculum for K-12 Computer Science Education (현행 초.중등 컴퓨터 교육과정의 문제점 분석 및 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Ko Dea-Sung;Lee Jeong-A
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.821-824
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    • 2006
  • 지식 정보화 사회에서 사회구성원들이 원활히 생활하고 당면한 문제들을 알고리즘적 사고에 바탕에 두고 해결하기 위해서는 컴퓨터교육이 필수적이다. 그러나 현행 초 중등과정에서 컴퓨터 교육과정을 살펴보면, 도구적 관점에서 문맹탈피를 위해 특정한 응용 소프트웨어 사용법을 가르치는 단순한 컴퓨터 소양, 활용교육 중심으로 교육과정이 편성되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 미국의 초 중등과정에서 컴퓨터 교육과정 개발에 관련된 기존 연구를 소개하고, 이를 기반으로 초 중등과정에서 컴퓨터과학 교육과정을 새롭게 제시하고자 한다. 이 새로운 교육과정의 특징은 컴퓨터교육을 도구적 관점이 아닌, 컴퓨터과학의 관점에서 소양, 활용, 과학교육을 포괄하도록 구성되어 있다.

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Development of science program using astronomical data in the history of Korea

  • Lee, Ji Hye;Shin, Dong Hee
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.96.1-96.1
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    • 2012
  • Science we have perceived as genuine science is based on western scientific enterprise, that is, western modern science(WMS). The K-12 science curriculum in Korea absolutely contains WMS content. Elkana(1981) criticized the indifference of comparative science in the field of science, whereas there have been a lot of comparative studies of art, religion, ethics, and politics. Science is the product not only based on 'western' culture but all cultural around the world including Korea. People have consistently observed and tested for such a long period of time all over the world. Traditional science of Korea can be related to multiculturalism, which has become important in many fields. Korea has a lot of great scientific enterprises, such as astronomical instruments of Chosun Dynasty and ancient data of natural phenomenon in Samguk-saki or Samguk-Yusa. It is expected that students will consider them as more 'objective' and 'realistic' things rather than 'artistic' and 'distinguished' things. Astronomy was also very important in the East because they believed sky as king, which results in the development of a lot of astronomical data and instruments in Korean history. In this study, we developed three units of science programs using astronomical enterprises in Korea: 1) Activities with our sundial, Angbuilgu:, 2) data interpretation of natural phenomenon in ancient Korea, 3) experience in Gyeongbokgung Palace. From these programs, we expect that students will develop a profound understanding and take pride in our science.

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Future of Preventive Medicine Education in Korea: Hopes and Challenges (우리나라 예방의학교육의 미래: 희망과 도전)

  • Meng, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2006
  • Throughout the century, based on the precedent set by Flexner in the United States, almost every subsequent report on the reform of medical education has pointed out the need for more prevention-oriented teaching in the curriculum. This has been particularly so in countries like Korea where the basic public health services have been so important for the improvement of health of the people. And, in fact, preventive medicine and public health have contributed a great deal to the prevention of communicable diseases and prolongation of life expectancy. Recently, however, along with the educational reform that emphasizing the interdisciplinary teaching, integration of basic science and clinical education, and centralization of responsibility for the medical education curriculum, concerns are being voiced by preventive medicine educators. These concerns are primarily centered around the fear that the implementation of interdisciplinary, centrally administered courses would result in a weakening of content and teaching expertise as well as a loss of departmental power and control. This paper foresees that preventive medicine and public health will be more important in Korea in the future and proposes that preventive medicine educators will have to step forward and turn the challenges of curricula restructuring into opportunities to expand the role of preventive medicine in the curricula of their institutions.

Characteristics of Elementary Science-Gifted Education Teachers' Reflection on Their Science Teaching (초등 과학영재교육 담당교사의 과학영재수업에 대한 반성의 특징)

  • Kang, Hunsik
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.57 no.6
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    • pp.789-800
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    • 2013
  • This study investigated the characteristics of elementary science-gifted education teachers' reflection on their science teaching. To do this, the reflective journals of 33 elementary science-gifted education teachers were analyzed in terms of 'productive reflection'. The results revealed that most of reflective journals included the aspects of 'instructional strategies and instruction for science-gifted education (100.0%)' and 'science-gifted students (90.9%)'. 'Curriculum for science-gifted education (42.4%)' was also frequently included although fewer than two previous aspects. However, 'subject matter knowledge' and 'assessment in science-gifted education' were included less than 10%. The mean score of the inclusion scores was 2.48 on a scale of 5 points and was not significantly correlated with the teaching careers in science-gifted education. 18.2% of the journals showed no integrations, which were unproductive reflection. 66.7% of the journals integrated only two aspects and 24.2% of the journals integrated three aspects. Only 6.1% of the journals integrated four aspects and no journals integrated all five aspects. Especially, the integrations between 'science-gifted students (81.8%)' or 'instructional strategies and instruction for science-gifted education (81.8%)' and the other aspects were most frequent. The integrations between 'Curriculum for science-gifted education (30.3%)' and the other aspects were also frequently included. However, the integrations between 'subject matter knowledge (6.1%)' or 'assessment in science-gifted education (0.0%)' and the other aspects were hardly included. The mean score of the integration scores was 2.12 on a scale of 5 points and was not significantly correlated with the teaching careers in science-gifted education.

Exploring High School Students' Perceptions on Cross-Curriculum Character Education Factors in Mathematical Teaching & Learning (인성교육을 위한 수학 교수·학습에서 고등학생들의 범교과적 인성요소에 대한 인식변화)

  • Hong, In Sook;Choi-Koh, Sang Sook
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.607-633
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    • 2016
  • Teachers and students tend to perceive mathematics irrelevant with character education. Since there has been no teaching of cross-curriculum characters education in mathematics classrooms, this research was to look for the possibility of teaching the character education in mathematics. Through the pilot study, trying to rebuild character factors based on Moon, et al,(2011), the researcher applied them to developing 8 lesson plans and carried them to 12th graders of the high school in March and April, 2014 using pre and post tests. Based on statistically significant difference with the level of p<.05, in "relation with me", for 'appointment' in the pretest, the students of natural science(SNS) exceeded, but in the posttest the students of humanities(SH) exceeded. In "relation with the other", in the posttest, for 'forgiveness' and 'responsibility' SNS, but for 'ownership' SH exceeded. In 'relation with a group' in the pretest for 'community spirit' SNS, and in the posttest SH exceeded. In the pretest in this study SNS naturally perceived the value of character education in math classes since they were closer to mathematics but after the experience through character education with cross-curriculum factors, SH perceived its importance expecially 'appointment', 'ownership', and 'community spirit' more than SNS so that we could predict the possibility of teaching cross-curriculum character factors in mathematics even after they had preconception as a high school student.

The species list of insects and spiders appear in the press Biology textbook I and II of high school (메뚜기목을 포함한 고등학교 생물(I, II) 교과서 내 곤충류 종 목록)

  • Lee, YoungBo;Yoon, Hyung-Joo;Lee, Kyeong-Yong;Kim, Nam-Jung;Han, Tae-Man
    • Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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    • v.53 no.1
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2015
  • Since based on the revised educational curriculum, the insects and spiders in eight biology textbooks I and II of high school are as follows. In class level, two classes, Insecta and Arachnida were investigated and their frequence numbers in the textbooks were a total of 143 times. In order level, 12 orders in insecta, 2 orders in Aranea were appeared in the textbooks. The most appearing frequence number was represented in Lepidoptera (33 times) and then in Araneae (11 times). For each publisher, the most appearing frequencies of insecta and spiders was shown in Gyohaksa (23 times), and then in Hyeongseol and Centurla education research institute (21times, respectively). In the textbooks, four species were found to misidentify in their species name and five mistakes were investigated in their photos and content.

Application and Evaluation of Object-Oriented Educational Programming Language 'Dolittle' for Computer Science Education in Secondary Education (중등 컴퓨터과학교육을 위한 객체지향형 EPL '두리틀'의 적용 및 평가)

  • Kwon, Dae-Yong;Gil, Hye-Min;Yeum, Yong-Cheul;Yoo, Seoung-Wook;Kanemune, Susumu;Kuno, Yasushi;Lee, Won-Gyu
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2004
  • Current computer education is difficult to educate basic concepts and principals of the computer science because the 7th curriculum of computer education is focused on the application of software. According to the ACM K-12 report about the computer science education model, current computer education is taking the wrong way and we should put the highly priority on the education of the fundamentals through programming languages for a better computer education oriented to the computer science. This paper introduces a new object-oriented educational programming language "Dolittle". The design principals of Dolittle are simple syntax of Korean, incremental programming, text based programming, aliasing of function, and object-oriented programming. Being applied to middle school classes, we can confirm that Dolittle is easy to learn, and gives rise to high interest and keeps interest through a course, and also is of great practical use in class for programming novice.

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A Study on Optician's Perception of Curriculum based on NCS(National Competency Standards) and Required Jobs in Daegu (대구지역 안경사의 NCS교육과정에 대한 인식과 요구직무에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Jun-Young;Park, Jeong-Sik;Lee, Jeung-Young
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Health Science
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.762-768
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    • 2016
  • Purpose. This study was performed on survey related optician's perception of NCS and required jobs to develop curriculum of department of ophthalmic optics Methods. This study was to evaluate the questionnaire survey of 63 opticians working in Optometrist in Daegu Metropolitan City from November 1, 2016 to November 18, 2016. Results. As for the opticians who know about NCS, 23.8% of the respondents answered that the opticians' perception of NCS is very low. For the four required jobs of the technical part, less than 5 years of optometrists ; optometry 73.7% > fitting 47.4% > ophthalmic dispensing 36.8% > lensmeter 5.3%, more than 5 years and less than 10 years of optometrists ; optometry 84.6% > fitting 53.8% > lensmeter 46.2% > ophthalmic dispensing 38.5%, more than 10 years of optometrists ; optometry 67.7% > ophthalmic dispensing 51.4% > lensmeter 19.4% > fitting 16.1%. For the four required jobs of the management, less than 5 years of optometrists ; product 57.9% > service 47.4% > manners 10.6% > sales 5.3%, more than 5 years and less than 10 years of optometrists ; service 76.9% > product 53.9% > manners 46.2% > sales 38.5%, more than 10 years of optometrists ; service 45.2% > manners 42.0% > product 32.3% > sales 19.4%. Conclusions. Although there were 108 required jobs of the technical part and 94 required jobs of the management part, the technical level of the department of ophthalmic optics was satisfactory, but the classes of the management part were insufficient. It will be necessary to actively reflect the needs of industry through curriculums reform.

Analyses of Instructional Objectives of 'Wise Life' Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Bloom의 신 교육목표분류학에 따른 슬기로운 생활 교과의 수업 목표 분석)

  • Lee, Eun-Young;Shin, Myeong-Kyeong;Choi, Chui-Im
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to explore instructional objectives of 'Wise Life' based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. It was to extend understanding the 7th and the revised Wise Life 2007 as well. The written objectives of two curriculum of Wise Life were divided into two, the 'knowledge' dimension and the 'cognitive process' dimension based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Major activity subjects presented in the 7th and the revised Wise Life 2007 were dominantly the basic inquiry activity types. It was found from this research that the 'factual' knowledge of the 'knowledge' dimension and the 'understand' of the 'cognitive process' dimension took a large proportion of the revised Wise Life 2007 objectives. The 'meta-cognitive' knowledge was increased. 'Remember' of the 'cognitive process' dimension was decreased and the high level objectives as 'analyze' and 'create', in the 'cognitive process' dimension was increased from the 7th to the revised curriculum. The 'factual' knowledge, 'conceptual' knowledge and 'metacognitive' knowledge were engaged with 'understand' and the 'procedural' knowledge were engaged with 'apply'. The 'meta- cognitive' were engaged with 'create' is the 'procedural' knowledge in the revised Wise Life 2007. 'Remember' was decreased. 'Create' was increased in the basic inquiry activities. It was analysed in zero percent of 'Observing', 'Investigating and Presenting', and 'Making'.