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A Study on the Construction of Contents for Korean Internet School Library Media Center(KISLMC) (인터넷학교도서관 미디어센터의 컨텐츠구성에 관한 연구)

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    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.303-329
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was to apply internet technology to school library, and to construct the contents of KISLMC(Korean Internet School Library Media Center). The content of KISLMC was composed of three categories, Cyber library, Supporting the materials for teaching and learning, and Guidance and counseling to the students. To develop the user-oriented interface, interface metaphors such as icons and images were used. Also, sitemap, search engine, index were used to avoid to be lost during the navigation.

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The Role of Garden Plants in Modern Culture - Focusing Japanese Garden Plants -

  • Koshio, Kaihei;Kim, Tae-Soon;Shin, Jeong-Hwa;Song, Won-Seob;Boo, Hee-Ock
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.330-336
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    • 2011
  • The recent disaster of earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 severely attacked East Japanese cities and people, and in addition, the accident of nuclear power station will inevitably damage the agricultural activities there. The economical depression influences on the horticulture and floriculture industry as well, through the reluctant consumption all over the country. Such a situation reflects a conventional perception that the garden plants or ornamental plants have been regarded as a symbol of capitalism, representing the success, luxury, beauty or other metaphors indicating the winners of business war. But as the word "culture" means "cultivation" originally, horti "culture" or flori "culture" should have played some roles in cultivating lands as well as cultivation of human minds, leading to develop a modern "culture" which may lay emphases on personality, originality, partnership, cooperation, diversity and so forth. In this article, a brief history of garden plants in Japan, as well as some current movements in Japanese horticulture and floriculture, is reviewed with some commodities which possess messages on creating a new humane culture.

Analysis of Mathematical Metaphor from a Sociocultural Perspective (수학적 은유의 사회 문화적 분석)

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    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.239-256
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    • 2001
  • The notion of metaphor has been increasingly popular in research of mathematics education. In particular, metaphor becomes a useful unit for analysis to provide a profound insight into mathematical reasoning and problem solving. In this context, this paper takes metaphor as an analytic unit to examine the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity in mathematical reasoning. Specifically, the discourse analysis focuses on the code switching between literal language and metaphor in mathematical discourse. It is shown that the linguistic code switching is parallel with the switching between two different kinds of mathematical knowledge, that is, factual knowledge and mathematical imagination, which constitute objectivity and subjectivity in mathematical reasoning. Furthermore, the pattern of the linguistic code switching reveals the dialectical relationship between the two poles of mathematical reasoning. Based on the understanding of the dialectical relationship, this paper provides some educational implications. First, the code-switching highlights diverse aspects of mathematics learning. Learning mathematics is concerned with developing not only technicality but also mathematical creativity. Second, the dialectical relationship between objectivity and subjectivity suggests that teaching and teaming mathematics is socioculturally constructed. Indeed, it is shown that not all metaphors are mathematically appropriated. They should be consistent with the cultural model of a mathematical concept under discussion. In general, this sociocultural perspective on mathematical metaphor highlights the sociocultural organization of teaching and loaming mathematics and provides a theoretical viewpoint to understand epistemological diversities in mathematics classroom.

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Uniformity in Highschool Mathematics Textbooks in Definite Integral and its applications\ulcorner (정적분과 응용- 교과서 내용의 균일성\ulcorner)

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    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.307-320
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    • 2001
  • Traditionally, there are many inherent restrictions in highschool mathematics textbooks. They are restricted in its contents and inevitably resorted to reader's ability of intuition. So they are usually lacked logical precisions and have various differences in expressions. We are mainly concerned with the definite integral and its applications in current highschool mathematics II textbooks according to 6th curriculum. We choose 6 of them arbitrarily and survey by comparison to deduce some controversial topics among them as follows. 1) absurd metaphors in formula process 2) confusions in important notations and too much choices in terms and statements. 3) lack of precisions in - teaching hierarchy (between some contents of Physics and the applications of definite integral) - introducing a proof of theorem (fundamental theorem of Calculus I) - introducing the methods (integral substitutions 1, ll) 4) adopting small topics such as - mean value theorem of integral - integrals with variable limits. In coming 7th curriculum, highschool students in Korea are supposed to choose calculus as a whole, independent course. So we hope that the suggested controversial topics are to be referred by authors to improve the preceding Mathematics ll textbooks and for teachers to use them for better mathematics education.

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A Comparative Study on The Meaning of Wuxing and Ganzhi in Suwenrushiyunqilunao and Wuxingdayi (『소문입식운기론오(素問入式運氣論奧)』와 『오행대의(五行大義)』의 오행(五行) 및 간지(干支)에 대한 해석(解釋) 비교(比較) 연구(硏究))

  • Baik, You-sang;Kim, Do-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.81-99
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    • 2016
  • Objectives : In this study, the meaning of Wuxing(五行) and Ganji(干支) in Suwenrushiyunqilunao (素問入式運氣論奧) and Wuxingdayi(五行大義) is reviewed to compare the interpretations of Wuxing and Ganzhi. Methods : The explanations of Wuxing, Sipgan(十干) and Sibiji(十二支) in the chapters of Suwenrushiyunqilunao and Wuxingdayi were studied to find different points of view. Results : Suwenrushiyunqilunao explained the meaning of Wuxing and Ganji using expression and metaphors of Yinyangwuxing(陰陽五行) theory while Suwenrushiyunqilunao describe their fragmentary characters. Also, Suwenrushiyunqilunao attached each one of Wuxing to substance(質), rule(理), shape(形), nature(性), righteousness(義). Conclusions : The differences of the explanations between the books point that there has been a deepening understanding of Yinyangwuxing and developments of Yunqixue(運氣學) in about 500 years from the publication of Wuxingdayi.

A Linguistic Approach to Communication Strategies of Biological Systems (생물체의 정보소통전략에 대한 언어학적 접근)

  • Kim, Soo-Yeon;Oh, Duk Jae
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2017
  • The completion of the Human Genome Project that identified all 3 billion base pairs in the human genome can be seen as a step towards understanding the relay of information and intention within an organism, or in other words, the language of life. The faculty of human language, key to differentiating humans from other animate species, works for conveying information to others by mapping meaning to sound based on syntactic structures. This resemblance between life and language has not gone unnoticed; the literature on RNA transcription and translation research regularly uses linguistic metaphors and the biolinguistic perspective of language has also been studied. By examining the biological characteristics of language and the linguistic characteristics of life, this study aims to identify key mechanisms shared between the two systems in order to promote a stronger connection between them. It furthers this goal by pointing out two general messages to which these mechanisms aim, productivity and accuracy, and discovers what lesson these messages give to a human society geared for sustainability.

A Case Study of the Community-based Nonformal Environmental Education Program Development-On the Case of the Nature School in the Forest- (지역기반 사회환경교육 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구-생태보전시민모임 숲속 자연학교 사례-)

  • Ji Eun-Kyoung;Kim, Jong-Wook
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.34-47
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the program development process of a nonformal environmental education(EE) program in detail. For the purpose, following research questions were answered in "the Nature School in the Forest" program in Eco-Club 1) What is the program development process? 2) What is the role of staffs, program developers, in the program development process? What are the meanings of their pedagogical approach? 3) With the findings of this study, how is the researcher able to develop ground theory for community-based nonformal EE, and to promote theoretical discussion for field improvement? The data were mainly gathered through participation observation and unstructured interview. And the data were analyzed by qualitative techniques such as clustering, factoring, noting pattern and themes, seeing plausibility, making metaphors, and building logical chain of evidence. The following conclusion comes out of the findings of this study. "The Nature School in the Forest" program is a educational device which the community-based NGO chose as a strategy to change individuals and community with its ideological purpose. And the program development process was the contiuous group decision-making process among staffs and volunteers. Consequently "the Nature School in the Forest" program is a circulated process of the voluntary activists training and their participation in program operation.

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Emerging Poetry Composition and Poetic Expression in 4 year Olds Stemming from Forest Activities (숲 활동을 토대로 한 만 4세 유아의 자발적 동시 짓기 과정과 시적 표현)

  • Kim, Yu-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.59-80
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    • 2017
  • Objective: The purpose of the present study was to find out the development of 4-year-old children's emerging poetry composition process and features of poetic expression through their own forest experiences. This research also aims to explore the possibility of alternative poetry education for early childhood. Methods: This study collected data from one class of four-year olds through classroom observation, interviews with teachers, and the researcher's journal entries on events that occurred during forest walking activities. Results: Research findings showed that it was possible to encourage free expression of metaphors and imagination in children and they were able to share excitement about poetry with their classmates when provided with an alternative environment. One remarkable finding was that children's spontaneous writing and pleasure in poetry did not continue when given the new theme of 'Mom and Dad'. Conclusion/Implications: The results imply that to encourage the development of children's intuitive poetic words we need to be interested in how to organize and highlight the experiences of children. This study also suggests that positive methodological and teleological changes are needed for poetry education that is separate from language education.

A Hermeneutical Analysis of the Program Development for Extension Education in Korea (농촌지도사업 교육프로그램 개발에 대한 해석학적 분석)

  • Kim, Jin-Hwa;Joeng, Ji-Woong
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.247-264
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    • 1996
  • The objective of this study was to analyze the reality of the program development process in detail accomplished by the organizations of extension education in through the hermeneutical approach. To achieve this purpose, this study tried to find answers to the following three questions : (1) how the organization of extension education develop their programs for farmers? (2) what is the programmers' awareness to the process of program development? and what is the reason for their thought and action to do so. (3) can be discussed integrally the findings for drawing some implications? The qualitative data were mainly gathered through participation observation and unstructured interview. And the qualitative data were analyzed by (1) noting pattern and themes, (2) seeing plausibility, (3) clustering, (4) making metaphors, (5) factoring, and (6) building a logical chain of evidence which hermeneutical techniques far drawing the meaning from the gathered data. The findings of this study were as follows: The programmers of this organization carried out the developing program in the technical training division at the national level and the section of fostering farm manager at the county level for the purpose of delivering the agricultural new technology and the agricultural policy. The term used formly in this organization was `curriculum development for former', and the reality of program was `instruction profile` which signified the set of the educational manin contents. At county level, Educational planning was stressed on the implement of educational administration.

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Metaphor: Interface between the Cognitive View and the Truth-conditional View

  • Yoon, Young-Eun
    • Language and Information
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.163-182
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    • 2004
  • Since metaphor was proposed to be a matter of thought instead of language over two decades ago, the research in this area has made most of its progress by the cognitivists. For the cognitivists represented by Lakoff, metaphor is not a mere poetic or rhetoric device, but is central to our everyday language. Furthermore, according to them, we categorize the world and break it into concepts mainly through metaphors, and truth conditions simply cannot account for metaphor. However, this cognitivists' view has been severely counterattacked by the truth-conditional semanticists. Their main criticism is that the cognitivists do not provide a way to go from our internal representations to the outside world. It is also criticized that the cognitive theory of metaphor as cross-conceptual domain mappings is too broad and general, and that they do not explain why a particular metaphorical expression should be subsumed under one mapping rather than another mapping, i.e., their schemes and structural relations are not predictive. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to propose a model for metaphor interpretation that combines the virtues of the two opposite views of metaphor. Truth-conditional semantics cannot ignore cognitive aspects of language, so-called states of affairs or mental representations, while cognitive theories cannot neglect vigorous representation of meaning with objective reality. This paper will try to present a preliminary outline of this combining model.

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