• 제목/요약/키워드: NATURE

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A Proposal of Inclusive Framework of the Nature of Science (NOS) Based on the 4 Themes of Scientific Literacy for K-12 School Science

  • Lee, Young Hee
    • 한국과학교육학회지
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    • 제33권3호
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    • pp.553-568
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    • 2013
  • Although many researchers and science educators agree that understanding of the nature of science is essential in order for students to be a scientific literate person, it is not easy to compromise exactly what kind of understanding of the nature of science is required to achieve this goal (Smith & Scharmann, 1999). This study discusses a theoretical background about the nature of science (NOS) including some consensus views of the NOS that several important U.S. educational reform documents and science researchers have presented over the past several decades. Finally, this study proposes an inclusive framework of the nature of science based on the four categories of scientific literacy, which are (1) science as a body of knowledge, (2) science as a way of investigating, (3) science as a way of thinking, and (4) the interaction of science, technology, and society. Each category of the framework includes several statements about the nature of science to describe each theme of the NOS. This framework is comprehensive and inclusive because it is suggested by examining several major U.S. national-level documents and in the publications of science education researchers presented about the nature of science. Significantly, many of the key ideas were added into category (4) and category (3), which indicates that the current literature stresses the relationship among science, technology, and society as well as the work of scientists.

An Empirical Study on the Determinants of the Debt Repayment Capability of Shipping Firms in Recession

  • Lee, Dong-Hae;Lee, Ki-Hwan;Kim, Myoung-Hee
    • 한국항해항만학회지
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    • 제44권5호
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    • pp.414-422
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    • 2020
  • In this study, an empirical analysis of 55 ship finance cases executed by a specific ship finance bank from 2009 to 2016 during the recession period was conducted. The purpose of this study was to find the factors affecting changes in the debt performance of Korean shipping companies. The main factors were the loan nature (investment purpose, loan-to-value (LTV), syndicated loans, loan terms, put-option, balloon, and spread), financial nature (total assets turnover, net profit-to-sales ratio, debt ratio, quick ratio, total borrowing, bonds payable to total assets, interest expenses-to-sales ratio, debt service coverage ratio (DSCR), and total assets), and the company nature (company age, chief executive officer's (CEO's) shares, and listing status). In this study, the factors affecting the debt repayment capability of domestic shipping companies (loan nature, financial nature, and company nature) were verified. The credit rating was used to measure the dependent variable, debt repayment ability. The variables of investment purpose, put-option, balloon, and spread in the loan nature, debt ratio in the financial nature, and the CEO's shares and company age in the company nature were found to be significant.

빛과 신명의 생태시학 -박두진의 자연시 연구- (Ecological Poetics of Light and Sinmyeong A Study on Park Dujin′s Nature Poems)

  • 이영섭
    • 인문언어
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.131-151
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    • 2002
  • Park Dujin has written the nature poems through his keen sense for light and the emotion of Sinmyeong(the excited and enthusiastic mind) from his early poetry to his later poetry. His poetic emotions, with the periods of his composition of poems, are expressed in the juxtaposition of the waiting for something or the existential agony with the devout faith. But he has pursued tile monistic nature through the emotion of light and Sinmeoung. Therefore all his poems are characterized as the nature poems which expose the artistic wholeness transcending the ideology and spirit of his times. Up to the present, Korean ecological poems have been absorbed in examining and criticizing the crisis for the environmental pollution and the destruction of ecosystem. Therefore Korean ecological poems could not get out of the dualistic ecological consciousness of the opposing environment confronting between man and nature. The ecological peculiarity in Park Dujin's nature poems is not the level of the man-oriented environment or bioecology but the monistic nature which man and nature are unified. This fact can be said to be caused by the approach to the objects on the basis of the sense for light and the emotion of Sinmyeong which perceive the transcendental nature.

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유아의 자연친화 교육프로그램이 자연친화적 지식 및 긍정적 태도에 미치는 효과 (The Effects of Nature Friendly Education Program on Preschooler's Ecological Knowledge and Positive Attitudes toward Nature)

  • 김영희;이장희
    • 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.331-341
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a nature friendly education program that would support ecological literacy of preschool children and to examine the effects of the program on their ecological knowledge and positive attitudes toward nature. The subjects of the study were 59 children from two child-care centers located at Gyeonggi Province. 30 preschoolers from one center were allocated into an experimental group, while 29 preschoolers from the other center were regarded as the control group. The program was composed of 24 sessions, performed three times a week for 20-30 minutes from May to June 2009. The instrument included the knowledge and attitudes toward the environmental scale for preschool children. The following results were obtained. First, the experimental group was found to attain higher level of ecological knowledge and more positive attitudes about nature as a result of the program. Second, after the program was administrated, the experimental group showed higher level of the knowledge and more positive attitudes about nature than the control group. These results suggest a program which conducts within a integrated teaching frame of meeting and getting familiar with nature and taking care of animals and plants, can become an effective early childhood education tool which fosters positive attitudes and knowledge concerning the environment.

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초등 신규 교사의 과학 본성에 대한 신념 (Beginning Elementary Teachers' Beliefs about the Nature of Science)

  • 양일호;한기갑;최현동;오창호;조현준
    • 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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    • 제24권4호
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    • pp.360-379
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate beginning elementary teachers' beliefs about the nature of science. Defining teachers' beliefs as a broad construct, we tried to examine the teachers' understandings about the nature of science. The methodology of this study was a qualitative approach through semi-structured interviews. In an urban area of Korea, five beginning elementary teachers were chosen. The cross-case and grounded theory study design were adopted for the data analysis. The results of data analysis were checked by teachers for internal validity. This study identified the teachers' beliefs about the nature of science suggested by many researchers. The results of this study showed that: 1) beginning elementary teachers did not well understand and were unfamiliar with the meanings of various terms about the nature of science; 2) their beliefs abut the nature of science were broad and various; 3) they understood some parts of the nature of science; 4) there were differences within their understandings about subconcepts of the nature of science.

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생태학적 관점에 의한 전통 주거의 실내디자인 특성과 적용에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Application and Characteristics of Interior Design in the Traditional Housing from an Ecological Aspect)

  • 한경희;김자경
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제29호
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    • pp.103-111
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    • 2001
  • The ideal housing in the 21st century means that it can provide people with the balanced life between nature and human life, while is possible through the systematic harmony of nature, environment, and human. As our society increasingly pays attention to the importance of environment, environment friendly houses and ecological dwellings are being built. If we add our own cultural environment attribute and historical identity to the ecological housing, we can create the most unique Korean ecological architecture. This study examines ecological interior expression methods from the traditional housing architecture which started out of nature, in order to find out an ecological approach in the interior design of the dwelling space. Based upon this examination, it mainly focuses on how these methods can be applied to a modern housing architecture. From an ecological perspective, the traditional house interior has two distinct characteristics; nature friendly and human friendly, because it considered nature and human harmoniously. The interior of the traditional housing can be divided into three types; nature friendly, health friendly, and human friendly. Finally, this study investigates the ecological value of the three types and application of them to modern housing. It will help to find out the harmonious way of building a house harmonizing both nature and human. Especially, considering that the nature is being destructed and the health of human is deteriorating due to the destruction of the nature, this study will show a feasible alternative to build the most Korean style of environmental architecture.

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과도기적 위치의 워즈워스: 정신과 자연의 상호 작용 모색 (Wordsworth of Transitional Position : Seeking Interaction between Mind and Nature)

  • 황병훈
    • 영미문화
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.89-109
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    • 2017
  • This study focuses upon the fact that Wordsworth has a great interest in the epistemological understanding of nature. It denies that his early poems, such as An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches, only represent the subtleties of nature, according to the picturesque mode of the eighteenth century, without any other consideration about human mind. It tries to trace his effort to deal with the relationship between nature and mind, which is committed to the apprehension of Wordsworth's experience which shapes much of his later work. Prior to Wordsworth, or in his earlier days, both the picturesque description and the descriptive poetry tend to be two-dimensional. Staying away from the cold rules of painting and overcoming passivity, he prefers to contemplate nature through his emotions and tries to come close to the sublime sense. Therefore, his poetic strategy is to show that his poetic description of nature goes beyond the limits which these picturesque rules and colors impose. His readers get the feeling of how desperate he become trying to choose the suitable poetic language to express the relationship between nature and mind. He also has an interest in developing a character, Dorothy, to match what he thinks and to mediate what he intends to describe through his epistemological understanding of nature.

Exploration on the Development and Characteristics of Composites Painting in the Contemporary Art Ecology

  • Wang, Jingjing
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • 제10권4호
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    • pp.337-344
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    • 2022
  • The ecological expression of art in modern society takes the harmonious developmental relationship between man and nature as an element and combines it with the various manifestations of painting as an expression of ecological artistic development. The necessary relationship for the harmonious development of nature is accurately articulated, and the ecological changes in people are expressed in integrated materials that inspire human reflection. In the pursuit of material pleasures, mankind is neglectful and indifferent to the environment. The development of composite painting in art and ecology is a process that more reveres the harmony between man and nature as well as satisfying the creative value of the work. After systematic evaluation and research, people have engaged in various structural forms of composite art painting development in the long history of art development, focusing on the integration of environmental and ecological culture.In the process of nature education going through development, the comprehensive practical development of nature education is enhanced and efforts are made to feel new ecological art ideas and new ways of valuing environmental protection. In this paper, an observational study of eco-art will be carried out, starting from the theory of hierarchical division and analyzing the contradictory relationship between man and nature. Recognize nature, understand it and feel it through eco-art painting. The analysis of the contradictory relationship between man and nature is combined with the identification of various types of information that give value to the environmental protection public, and the combination of ecological painting and nature art to achieve an upgrade of the environmental protection idea of the value of painting.

대순사상의 인간 본성론(本性論) 연구 (A Study on the Theory of Human Nature in Daesoon Thought)

  • 박병만
    • 대순사상논총
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    • 제44집
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    • pp.263-297
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    • 2023
  • 본 논문은 대순사상에서의 인간 본성에 대한 이해와 그 특징을 비롯하여 그 본성론이 대순진리회의 기본사업 및 3대 중요사업의 방향성과 어떻게 연관하고 있는가를 살펴보고자 한 것이다. 대순사상의 본성론을 이해하기 위해서 필자는 유학전통에서 나타난 여러 본성론을 유형(類型)별로 나누어 이를 분석하고 검토하였다. 이 유형적인 틀을 방법론적 기준으로 삼아 대순사상의 본성론을 살펴보았다. 대순사상에서는 인간 본성을 정직하고 진실한 양심(良心)으로 명확하게 규정하였다. 또한, 의(衣)·식(食)·색(色)의 추구라는 인간의 기본적인 생물학적 욕구도 본성으로 수용하는 태도를 보였다. 이는 도덕성과 생물학적 욕구를 아울러 본성으로 규정한 왕부지(王夫之)의 본성론과 일치하지는 않으나 상당히 유사하다고 평가할 수 있다. 대순사상의 본성론은 인간의 도덕성을 강조하면서도 생물학적 욕구가 인간 삶의 기본적인 요소라는 점을 충분히 수용하고 있었다. 또한, 초월적 절대자인 구천상제(九天上帝)의 명에 의해 본성이 내재화하는 것으로 인식할 수 있는 여지를 보임으로써 종교적인 성향을 강하게 내포하는 특징을 보였다. 대순진리회의 기본사업인 포덕·교화·수도에서는 이 정직하고 진실한 본성을 온전하게 회복하는 것을 하나의 목적으로 하고 있었다. 3대 중요사업 가운데 사회복지사업과 구호자선사업에서는 의·식·색의 추구라는 인간의 기본적인 욕구를 인정하고 수용하여 적절한 차원에서 이를 보장하는 방향으로 이루어지고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

교육대학생의 과학의 본성 개념과 구성주의 학습관의 연관성 및 변화 조사 (Elementary Preservice Teachers' Conceptions about and its Changes in the Nature of Science and Constructivist' View of Learning.)

  • 권성기;박승재
    • 한국과학교육학회지
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    • 제15권1호
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    • pp.104-115
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    • 1995
  • Teachers' conception about the nature of science is considered to be an important factor to improve the students' conceptions of that. It is assumed that teachers' conception of the nature of science may be influenced by their views of learning. The first purpose of this study was to investigate the exploratory relationships between teachers' conceptions about the nature of science and their views of learning. The second one was to compare the their conceptions and views of learning before and after science education lectures during 1 semester. We administered the questionnaires for the nature of science and for constructivist's learning, respectively, consisted of 5 dimensions (relativism-positivism; inductivism- deductivism; decontextualism-contextualism; content-process; instrumentalism-realism) and of 6 aspects (student; learning; instruction; teacher; curriculum; evaluations) were administered to 57 pre-service elementary teachers (female=44; male=13) before and after lectures. In pre-test it was revealed that respondents had not the consistent conceptions about the nature of science. The conception of relativism was more dominant than those of positivism, deductivism than inductivism, decontextualism than contextualism, process than content and instrumentalism than realism. They had more constructivist views in the respect of process of learning than in other respects, that is, students, instruction, teacher, curriculum and evaluation. But no significant correlations between the dimensions of the nature of science and the aspects of the views of learning suggest that constructivst views of learning was not deeply related with their conceptions of the nature of science. In post-test we had similar results with those of the pre-test, but the process-content dimensions of the nature of science was correlated with the constuctivist views of learning. Therefore we concluded that elementary pre-service teachers had the constructivist views of learning which was isolated with their conceptions of the nature of science although they had science educations course. We need to develop the course to make the conceptions of the nature of science relate view of learning.

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