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A Study of Teachers' Role Perception of Cooperation Teaching between General Education Teachers and Special Education Teachers for Handicapped Children (일반유아교사와 장애전담교사 간 협력교수 유형 적용을 통한 역할인식)

  • Hwang, Mi-Jin;Seo, Hyun-Ah
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.163-179
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    • 2011
  • This study was conducted in an inclusion class in M Inclusion Day Care Center in Busan. Thirteen sessions of cooperation teaching were applied in the inclusion class. In this sense, the purpose of this study was to identify what kinds of change occurred in the perspectives of teachers' role on both the general education teacher and the special education teacher during cooperation teaching. The data were collected through participation observations, teachers' reflective journals, and interviews. From the results of the study, it could be suggested that various types of teaching strategies need to be introduced to both teachers from the beginning of inclusion so that the general teacher and the special education teacher could understand each others roles and tasks, share opinions and ideas about daily activities, and experience the roles of the other teacher.

A study on the effective cultural instruction based on the critical approach through film (영화를 이용한 비평적 문화교육 연구)

  • Yang, Miran;Bang, Youngjoo
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.313-337
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of the cultural instruction based on the critical pedagogy through film. The participants were 21 college students enrolling 'Understanding American/British culture'class and the class was 15 week long. During class, they discussed and selected the cultural topics related to the movies, complete the research papers, and then gave presentations. The students' portfolio, which consists of the goal statements, research papers, and the reflective journals, was analyzed to investigate the effectiveness of the instruction. The results showed that the instruction was effective in five aspects. They are, 1)accumulation of the cultural knowledge, 2)better understanding of the target culture and its people, 3)acquisition of the critical perspectives toward the target and their own cultures, 4)teaching method, and 5)increase of the motivation for studying other cultures. The study suggested that the instruction should be applied to English-medium class with more advanced students.

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Early Childhood Teachers' Difficulties in Creativity Education (유아교사의 창의성 수업 어려움 분석)

  • Hwang, Hee-Sook;Kim, Bit-Nae
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.656-666
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate early childhood teachers' difficulties in creativity education. The subjects of this study were 10 early childhood teachers. Data were collected from reflective journals and in depth interviews. The results were as follows: First, the difficulties fall into two categories; inter and outer difficulties. Second, inter difficulties were teachers' misunderstanding of creativity. Third, outer difficulties were parent's demand for prerequisite learning, kindergarten director's goals of education, insufficient pre-service teacher education, and a lack of support to teachers.

Effects of STEAM-based Environmental Program for Elementary School Students' Environmental Literacy (STEAM 기반 환경교육 프로그램이 초등학생의 환경 소양에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Sung-Hee
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.66-76
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of and development of the STEAM-based on environmental programs to enhance environmental literacy of elementary school students. Through the questionnaires and the analysis of students' outcomes, the effects on literacy in both quality and quantity were verified. By applying the STEAM-based to environmental programs for enhancing environmental literacy to elementary students, the results of this study was as follows: First, its application was meaningful in that the level of $p$<.05 in point view of environmental literacy was a result of the pre-post test in the experiment group, which was made up of the 6th graders in the elementary school. Second, analysis of students' reflective journals showed that the participants' understanding, actions, and attitudes were positively affected by the programs in terms of environmental literacy. In conclusion, the STEAM-based on environmental programs for environmental education was very effective in enhancing environmental literacy.

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A Cross-Cultural Study on Student Engagement and Resistance to Critical Literacy in a TESOL MA Classroom

  • Pederson, Rod
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.36
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    • pp.175-209
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    • 2014
  • This paper reports on a qualitative examining the cross-cultural reasons for student engagement and resistance to critical literacy in a three week summer TESOL MA course that was part of a Korean/American university faculty exchange program. Of particular interest was the unique diversity of the class which consisted of 13 subjects from 9 different nations. Using student and instructor reflective journals, field notes on classroom observations, and the course terminal paper on student's philosophies of education as research corpora, results of the study revealed that students resisted instruction in critical literacy for ideological and epistemological reasons. Nonetheless, the data also showed that while all students resisted some theories in critical literacy, all students nonetheless engaged the course content in meaningful ways.

Overcoming the Hurdles of Transition: Middle School Students' Engagement in Distance Instruction During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea

  • Jinsol KIM;Jeongmin LEE
    • Educational Technology International
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.81-114
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    • 2023
  • The study aimed to qualitatively examine middle school students' engagement in distance instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants comprised 119 students from a girls' middle school in Seoul, South Korea. To gain an in-depth understanding of the students' experiences, we collected their reflective journals, which included structured items about their learning engagement at three timepoints in 2020: April, July, and December. The following are the results: 10 themes and 18 concepts were derived, and they were integrated into causal conditions (sudden transition due to COVID-19), contextual condition (technology readiness, school education context), central phenomena (high level of behavioral engagement, low emotional engagement), interventional conditions (recognizing the potential of online learning, situational awareness about COVID-19 and online learning), action/interaction phenomena (development and use of self-regulated learning strategies), and consequences (changes in practices and perception towards online learning). Based on the findings, engagement patterns of the participants were classified into five types: proactive, conservative, receptive, reactive, passive learners. The present study demonstrated important findings that are essential for the improvement and development of engaging online learning strategies in the future.

Analysis of Learning Experience on Team-based Technology Design Project of Non-Engineering Students

  • KIM, Insu
    • Educational Technology International
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.201-215
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    • 2014
  • The design project of a technology product provides an opportunity for students to experience the inter-connectedness of academic information and ill-defined real-world problems. This study focuses on non-engineering students' activity and perception through the assistive technology design project. For this purpose, participants engaged in a team-based technology design project. Then, a qualitative research approach was adopted, which included reflective journals with 24 undergraduate students majored in Adaptive Physical Education. The analysis identified six factors (knowledge value, social value, reality value, accomplishment value, perspective value, benefit value) of perception and five stages (topic selection, function suggestion, visualization, presentation preparation, and presentation) of activity.

Exploring directions for intercultural citizenship education in Korean language education for social well-being

  • Kyung-hee Lee;Hyun-yong Cho
    • CELLMED
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    • v.13 no.14
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    • pp.20.1-20.6
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to explore directions for achieving therapeutic and social well-being effects through intercultural citizenship education in language classrooms. To accomplish this, we first clarified the concepts of education as healing, social well-being, and intercultural citizenship education. Subsequently, through the analysis of reflective journals on the writing and peer review processes written by university students, we discovered manifestations of key concepts of intercultural citizenship, such as empathy, recognition, connection, discovery of new knowledge, and attitude change. Based on these insights, we proposed the perspective that addressing the concept of intercultural citizenship in Korean language education can be beneficial for language education as a form of healing and for social well-being. Furthermore, we suggested that future language education should evolve from instruction focused on the interpretation of symbols and functional proficiency to practices that empower learners as members of global society, allowing them to assign value to their lives and build healthy relationships with others.

A Research on e-portfolio as a Learning Tool: A Case Study of Kyung Hee University (학습성찰도구로서 e-포트폴리오 활성화를 위한 연구: 경희대학교 사례를 중심으로)

  • Kang, In-Ae;Ryu, Seung-Hyun;Kang, Youn-Kyoung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.495-506
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    • 2011
  • Portfolio has recently come to gain more attention from school as an alternative evaluation tool and a self-reflective learning tool for learning. After literature reviews about the case studies on the use of portfolio in higher education including both universities in Korea and abroad, this study attempted, first, to analyze the current e-portfolio system running in Kyung Hee University for the undergraduate students starting from the spring semester, 2010, and then, suggested the ways the system can be more actively utilized among the students, and simultaneously, acquiring more interest and participation from both the faculty members and the school administrators. The data collected from the survey and reflective journals of the students suggested 1) more user-friendly, easy-to-edit version of the system, 2) more diverse modes and functions of the system which, therefore, are able to adjust well to the specific and unique features of subjects or majors of the students, and 3) collaborative learning environments among the students and between the students and the faculty members from which students can share, participate, interact with each other, getting useful feedback from those co-learners and faculty members. Eventually the study aimed to enhance the recognition of the participants about the importance of portfolio as a learning tool for self-reflective learning and authentic evaluation of the students.

Exploration, Conflicts, Challenges, and Changes: A Teacher Educator's Self-Study for Secondary School Physics Instruction Course (탐색, 갈등, 도전, 그리고 변화 -물리교과교육 수업을 위한 한 교사교육자의 셀프스터디-)

  • Choi, Jaehyeok;Jo, Kwanghee;Joung, Yong Jae;Kim, Heekyong
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.739-756
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of the study is to reflect on 'myself' as a teacher educator of college of education in depth and to improve my instruction through self-study with three critical collaborators. 17 pre-service science teachers and I have participated in this study of a teacher educator's course since March 2016 after the preliminary practice in 2015. The video recorded the course for 11 weeks with about 40 hours of lessons. The data source also included teacher educator's reflective journals, lecture evaluations, online boards and so on. Questionnaires were distributed and answered both at the beginning and at the end of the course and pre-service teachers wrote their reflective journals. Four of them were in the focus group interviews. During the course, the weekly group meeting of critical collaborators analyzed the emerging issues based on the lesson clips and teacher educator's reflective journals with discussion for the course innovation. Four phases were revealed in the process and for the purpose of the course such as exploration, conflicts, challenges, and changes. The results showed that first, we identified tensions among the teacher educator's multiple identities as a lecturer, a faculty member, and a researcher. Second, there were differences between goals of teacher educator and pre-service teachers in the course, and this obstructed the success of the course sometimes. Third, these practices led to explore balanced alternative views and interpretations of the problem by critical views and to expand and improve our teaching practice and thinking. In addition, the self-study with critical collaborators helped to bring conflicts and issues below my practice to light for collaborative reflection and it gave a chance to understand ourselves as teacher educators in different ways.