• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.144-155
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• 1998

This research aims to perceive the present state of science experimental education practiced in middle school and also to improve the laboratorial environment. Accordingly, this study surveyed 297 middle school science teachers in Seoul to examine the risks and accidents occurred during lab sessions, the conditions of chemical waste disposal, and whether or not teacher's manual clearly states cautions on toxic chemicals. About 70%(69.6%) of science teachers were highly concerned about risks and toxicity of chemicals used in classes, 59.9% experienced actual accidents, and 83.2% were anxiety of incidents caused by chemicals. Besides, 55.2% of science teachers answered that they have little knowledge about caring noxious chemicals used in lab sessions. So it turns out that they need more specific education on handling toxic chemicals. More than one third(36.7%) answered that they disposed of chemical waste water without any special care or kept it in the lab after experiments. The number of chemicals as well used in middle school curriculum is increasing as grades gets higher toxic chemicals. However, there are few teachers' manual covering how to handle noxious chemicals. Therefore, in middle school curriculum the number of poisonous chemicals should be minimized as much as possible, and in case the toxic chemicals have to be used, teacher's guide book should state precautions on handling chemicals in detail. Also government should make it obligatory on schools to instate ventilator for chemical waste, or to transport the waste to proper disposal systems.

• 대한영양사협회학술지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.155-179
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to compare the task elements categorized into required and additional man power's implemental between present and future-oriented duties of school nutrition teachers. The survey consisted of five duties, 27 tasks, 93 task elements, and 270 work details in the task elements of school nutrition teachers. A pilot-test was first conducted on nutrition teachers to confirm the survey contents, and then a main survey was performed on 240 school nutrition teachers, using a self-administrated online method, from July 16 to September 5, 2016. To compare present and future-oriented tasks, frequency analyses were conducted. Work details in the task elements were categorized into 'required' and 'additional man power's implemental', depending on school nutrition teachers' responses, based on a 50% cut-off percentage. The results showed that 13 work details among 60 work details (21.7%) in the 'Duty C. Safety and hygiene management of school foodservice', and 15 work details out of 106 work details (14.2%) in 'Duty B. Foodservice management practices' were identified as additional man power's implemental in future oriented duties. As to 'Duty A. Nutrition management', only three work details among 55 work details (5.5%) were identified as additional man power's implemental. On the other hand, all work details in 'Duty D. Nutrition diet education and counseling and 'Duty E. Reinforce professionalism' were identified as "required" as school nutrition teachers' duties. These findings imply that school nutrition teachers perceive nutrition management and education as their primary duties to the fulfill school foodservice' mission of promoting students' health and fostering students' dietary behaviors. The study offers practical and governmental implications, which can encourage school nutrition teachers to perform their primary duties.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제24권5호특별호
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• pp.531-538
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• 2005

The primary purpose of the study was to investigate the degree of difficulty and the causes of the difficulties in science instruction reported by elementary teachers and students. The secondary purpose was to suggest the effective methods to both of them to improve the efficiency of science instruction. For this study, the survey was carried out on 322 students and 156 teachers in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. The questionnaires consisted of interest, difficulty and its factors. The results of this investigation are summarized as follows; 1. Teachers had relatively higher interest than students in science instruction content(textbook). Furthermore, the units that teachers showed interest differed from those that students had. This means that there is a significant difference of interest in instruction process between teachers and students. 2. Teachers felt much higher difficulty than students in the content of science instruction. This shows that the degree of interest might have little relation with that of difficulty, and that teaching of science seemed more difficult than teaming. Moreover, there was a difference of difficulty in the units between the teachers and students. The result shows a distinctive difference of difficulty in 8 units of the 3rd grade, 9 units n the 4th grade, and 12 units in the 5th grade (p<.05, p<.001, p<.005, respectively). It means that the difficulty depended on the units. 3. Students responded that they are responsible for difficulty factors of teaming, otherwise teachers thought that students are responsible for it, when the factors were divided into student factor, teacher factor, and curriculum factor. 4. Students demanded many experiments in the lab as well as easy and interesting instructions in order to reduce the degree of difficulty and to improve the condition of science instructions. However, teachers demanded the expansion of experimental equipments and materials as well as the improvement of the lab condition.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.291-305
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• 2010

이 연구의 목적은 초등 교사들의 미량화학(Small-Scale Chemistry lab programs, SSC) 프로그램에 대한 교사의 인식을 알아보았다. SSC 연수 후 인식조사 참여 교사는 266명이다. 설문 내용은 SSC lab programs 교육과 적용의 필요성, 장점, 위험 및 안전, 환경오염과 처리, 경제성, 탐구능력 신장 등이다. 교사가 생각하는 전통적인 실험방법의 문제는 실험 준비시간이 많이 들고, 위험과 안전 그리고 사고에 대한 교사의 법적 책임, 경제적인 문제, 실험 후 폐기물 처리 어렵다, 자료 부족 순으로 답하였다. SSC를 경험한 교사는 거의 없었으며 SSC 연수 후 대부분의 교사들은 SSC 도입과 교육의 필요성에 긍정적으로 답하였다. 그리고 SSC 교육은 교과서 반영, 교사연수, 방과 후 교육, 강사 초청 순으로 하는 것이 좋겠다고 답하였다. SSC 교육에 필요자료로서는 CD, 비디오, 책자, 인쇄물 순으로 답하였다. SSC 장점을 묻는 설문에서는 단순, 편리, 시간절약, 다양성, 정성, 정량, 수업병행, 장난감 등 교사들 대부분이 긍정적으로 답하였다. 시약 등의 소량 사용으로 말미암아 폭발, 화재에 안전하다고 답하였고 플라스틱 사용으로 깨질 염려가 없어 안전하다고 답하였다. 또한 실험 후 처리가 쉽고 환경오염을 줄일 수 있겠다고 대부분이 긍정적으로 답하였다. 생활속 도구 사용으로 친숙하고 또한 장비구입이 용이하고 경제적이었다. 학습내용이해는 대체적으로 긍정적으로 답하였다. 개별 또는 2인 1조 편성으로 서로 충분한 토의가 부족하다고 생각하는 시각도 있었다. 문제해결력과 기술향상은 긍정적으로 답하였다. 특히, 창의력 신장에서 긍정적으로 답한 교사는 51.5% 였다. 대체적으로 탐구 능력 신장에는 교사들이 아직 체계화되지 않아 판단하는데 혼란스러운 것 같았다. 이 미량화학 프로그램이 초등현장에 간편하게 활용할 수 있게 교수-학습 자료의 개발을 위한 노력 및 보급 그리고 계속적인 연수가 이루어져서 초등 현장에 넓게 확대되었으면 한다.

• 교육녹색환경연구
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

Ministry of Education, Science And Technology, from 2009 to 2014, try to establish the setting of Department System in the Middle Schools and High Schools. They selected 45 Schools in 2009 and 61 Schools in 2010 for the Advanced Department System. I studied 2 High schools in 2009 and 3 High schools in 2010 of them, which located in GyeongGi-Do. I studied the Location of Department Classrooms, Teachers' Labs, Homebases and Resting Spaces of them. The conclusions are follows. 1) Most of them take Horizontal Zoning System in the Department Classrooms. 2) The Number of Teachers' Labs were increased in most of floors. On the other hand, most of Labs' Area were decreased. Every department Classroom Zone has one Teachers' Lab. 3) Every schools took much more spaces of Homebases and Resting Spaces than before. And various Resting Spaces using Corridors and Outdoors are prepared for students, those who moves every changing class time by the Department System.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.74-84
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to get an implication on teacher education program, by exploring the difficulties pre-service elementary teachers have with their science lessons. 37 pre-service teachers were requested to write an anecdote about their science lessons during their 4 week practicum. By analyzing these anecdotes, the difficulties were grouped into several categories by the researcher, and then reconfirmed by the pre-service teachers themselves. The result showed that there were far more difficulties with practical work (cases: 48), than with content knowledge teaching (cases: 17). Among practical work related difficulties, the most frequent cases were: 1) when they have unexpected result different from scientific theory (cases: 10), 2) when they teach process skill and usage of lab equipments (cases: 8), and 3) when they do not have enough preparation for practical work (cases: 7). Unlike the result of preceding research on secondary pre-service teachers, there was no affective aspect problems. These difficulties also can be divided into 'problems' and 'dilemmas'. Whereas 'problems' can be settled by removing obstacles, 'dilemmas', a conflict-filled situation, require choices between competing values or aims. The use of scientific language, the decision on the level and amount of knowledge they teach, and disposal of unexpected experiment results caused such dilemmas in science lessons. The research results imply practical work should be more strengthened in the elementary teacher education program. And both teacher educators and pre-service teachers need to understand that practical teaching is a complex enterprise accompanying some 'dilemmas'. The role of science teachers as managers of dilemmas could be considered.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.529-545
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• 2007

Questioning forms an integral part of most strategies for effective teaching when the class consists of difficult content. Science including chemistry is usually content-rich, but difficult to understand without supporting lab experiments, subsidiary visual materials and model kits. Engaging the attention and interest of students in such a subject, therefore, is the key to the success of a daily lesson in the classroom. However, generating meaningful questions requires a certain level of information and metacognitive skills on the part of the teacher. The purpose of this study was to find out the framework of effective teachers' questioning with a large group in chemistry class: how teachers used questioning to engage their students in such a big class, to identify a variety of forms of feedback provided by students and to develop a model of question-inducing strategies. We investigated the teachers' recognition of their questioning and the students' recognition of teachers' questioning by surveying over 82 teachers and 434 students in Korea. The survey findings show that the questionnaire can be categorized into four elements: the theme of the teachers' questions (T), students' inquiries (I), methods of teachers' questioning (M) and encouragement of students (E). These elements can be analyzed and sub-categorized to find out which elements are effective in good questioning, even though the elements are interwoven tetrahedrally.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.420-436
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analysis the elementary teachers' and students' views about the difficulties in teaching and learning in geology units of elementary school science. For the purpose of this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted individually with seventeen elementary teachers who have serviced more than three years, and with sixteen elementary students located in Cheongju City. The interview questions were developed through Seidman's step to acquire a reliability in the interview data with triangulation, then in-depth interview questions were modified and completed through pre-interview after constructing the trustworthiness of interviewees. In-depth interviews were performed in applying the analytic induction method and the interviews were recorded. From the interviews, we found that elementary teachers' views about the difficulties in teaching geology units; teachers' inner difficulties, the difficulty of lab activities, the problems of rock samples, the problems of curriculum in geology units, the difficulty of the geological feature, the problems of the cramming education, the lack of the opportunity for the speciality, and so on. And the students have the views about the difficulties in learning geology units; the difficulty of the unit contents understanding, the problems of learning by heart, the lack of the interest, the lack of materials, the problems of rock samples, the difficulty of the field learning, and so on. Based on the results, the study suggested that an interesting lab activities should be included in the geology units and taught in the geological field trip to help elementary school students more fully comprehend contents of the geology units.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2019

The current education is becoming more extensive with the application of various teaching methods. This is a problem that is so distributed that it is difficult for users to find the data and it takes a long time to find the information they need. Currently, various educational services, materials, and instruments are developed and scattered. Therefore, it is important to raise students' awareness of aptitude and career path with customized education tailored to students. Conventional education platforms have very difficult to choose the right materials for students because of the spread of educational programs and institution materials. To solve this, we propose a customized recommendation approach to recommend customized educational service materials and institution for students to teachers, which helps teachers conveniently choose materials suitable for their respective environments. On this new platform, the CNN algorithm provides recommended content for classes and students. For real service on the educational service platform, we implement this system for Jeil edus business. Through this mechanism, we expect to improve the quality of education by helping to select the right service.

• 한국가정과교육학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.61-69
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• 1991

The purpose of this study is to investigate the preserivce curriculum and present it as a material for planning of curriculum of Home Economics. For this study, the preservice curriculum of 5 areas were collected and the questionnaires were administered to teachers who were being trained at these areas. Most of the teachers contented with the numbers of literal art subjects and educational subjects and the prescribed hours of them. More than a half numbers of teachers unsatisfied with the numbers of Home Economics subjects and the prescribed hours of them. They wanted that they could take the more Home Economics courses. The proportion on the lab courses hours are 33% of the hours of the total Home Economics ones.