• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.15-28
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• 2013

Protected area based ecotourism is now the most interesting topic to the nature lover and policy maker throughout the world because of its linkage with economic benefits, protected area management and biodiversity conservation. Based on this premise our study explores the visitors' perception on the recreational potential of Kaptai National park and its potentiality in ecotourism development in Bangladesh. The field survey was carried out both in holidays and non-holidays of the week from the late winter season in 2009 to the spring season in 2010. A total of 118 visitors were interviewed with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire. Study findings revealed that about 62% male constitute the visitors group with the maximum number of visitors in the age of between 15-25 years (35.59%). The tourists were very much attracted by boat riding (93.22%) followed by scenic beauty of Rampahar-Sitapahar (85.59%). A major portion of about 57.14% tourists wished to visit the park within a year because they got a lot of pleasure from Natural and green environment (86.44%) followed by boating on Kaptai Lake (85.59%). Most of the visitors (36%) were happy about existing facilities but defined some problems such as tour guiding facility, food and drinking water supply, etc. About 71% and 66% respondents perceived that Kaptai National Park made them to be concerned and protective of nature and supports and sustains local ecosystem respectively and 43% respondents agreed that Kaptai National Park ensures the social equity and involve local people in ecotourism which are the most important elements of sustainable ecotourism. The present study results also predict that the park might be a good recreational area for enjoying with family members and group of friends through proper management and promoting the relationships among tourism, local people and biodiversity conservation.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.253-264
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate implications of self-directed learning experiments in elementary science education through understanding elementary school students' awareness of their experiences in self-directed learning experiments. Twenty students joined the school science club voluntarily and conducted self-directed learning experiments. We collected data through observation of the experiments, interviews, and questionnaires. The students who participated in the club showed high satisfaction with self-directed learning experiments. The participants were aware that their scientific interest and knowledge, and the confidence in conducting experiments were increased. The students felt positive about the inquiry process of conducting self-directed learning experiments with their own subjects. They also felt a sense of achievement in attempting their experiments in defiance of several failures. The participants realized that the self-directed inquires led to increased declarative and procedural knowledge of science. The students stated that they had some difficulties in coping with the different results contrary to expectations and preparing laboratory materials and instruments. Nonetheless, they showed the promotion of their scientific literacy during overcoming those difficulties. We suggest that self-directed learning experiments can be a more effective way in science learning to make students experience the nature of science than existing school experiments. This can be implemented through a creative experience activities such as science clubs.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.76.2-76.2
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• 2019

Shells in early-type galaxies are low surface brightness tidal debris, which are wide concentric arcs of overdense stellar regions with large opening angles. The most widely accepted mechanism today for shell formation is the merger scenario, but the dominant merger type producing shells is not clearly understood yet: major/minor and wet/dry mergers. Since shells are regarded as smoking-gun evidence of merging events, detailed understanding of shell galaxies is very useful to constrain the formation process of early-type galaxies. In this study, we investigate the metallicity gradients of eight early-type shell galaxies using CALIFA IFU data to better understand the nature and origins of galaxy shells. We estimate simple stellar population properties out to three effective radius from the measurement of Lick/IDS absorption line indices. We compare the metallicity gradients of shell galaxies with those of normal early-type galaxies in the same mass range. In this presentation, we discuss how much the gradients of shell galaxies are different from those of normal early-type galaxies and what the existence of galaxy shells implies about galaxy formation.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.160-175
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• 2004

This study examined the knowledge and practices of scientific inquiry displayed by three student teachers and two beginning teachers at secondary levels. Observations using the instrument of OTOP designed by the research team of OCEPT (Oregon Collaborative for Excellent in the Preparation of Teachers) generalized similar teaching strategies of scientific inquiry between student and beginning teachers, such as using group work for students' first hand experience, using concrete materials for experimentation or visual tools for demonstration, using questions for factual knowledge mainly without opportunities to understand how scientific knowledge is constructed. Those scientific inquiry activities were very confirmative ones to follow the steps without opportunities of understanding nature of science or nature of scientific inquiry. However, all participants in this study hold knowledge of scientific inquiry envisioned by the National Science Education Standards [NSES] (NRC, 1996), where students identify their hypothesis, use critical and logical thinking, and consider alternative explanations through argumentation as well as experimentation. An inconsistent relationship between participating teachers knowledge and practices about scientific inquiry resulted from their lack of pedagogy skills of implementing it in the classroom. Providing opportunities for these teachers to reflect on their beliefs and practices about scientific inquiry was recommended for the future study. Furthermore, increasing college faculty interest in new teaching approaches for upgrading the content knowledge of student teachers and beginning teachers was recommended as a solution, since those teachers showed evidence of influence by college faculties at universities in their pedagogy skills.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.208-223
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 한국인이 전통적으로 가지고 있는 자연관을 반영한 자연관 분석틀을 활용하여 초·중등학교 학생과 교사의 자연관을 분석하고자 한다. 그리고 학생과 교사의 자연관 분석 결과가 초·중등학교 과학 교육에 주는 시사점을 논의하고자 한다. 이를 위해서 본 연구에서는 Cobern과 그의 동료들이 개발한 자연관 분석틀에 한국인의 전통적인 자연관의 특징을 접목하여 자연관 분석틀을 재구성하여 활용하였다. 그리고 학생과 교사가 자연에 대하여 어떤 관점으로 인식하고 있는지를 심층적으로 분석하기 위해, 각 문항마다 자신의 응답에 대하여 그렇게 생각한 까닭을 쓰게 하여 정성적으로 분석하였다. 연구결과, 학생과 교사들은 자연을 존중하고 살아있는 생명체로 보며 자연은 순환적인 것이고 인간과 자연이 상호작용한다는 관점을 지니고 있었으며, 자연스러움을 중시하고 자연을 아름답다고 생각하는 한국인의 전통적인 자연관을 가지고 있었다. 이는 세계를 물질로 보며, 직선적인 시간관으로 자연을 보는 서양 과학에서 중심이 되는 자연관과는 다소 차이가 있다고 볼 수 있다. 따라서 학생과 교사들이 가지고 있는 한국의 전통적인 자연관은 학교 과학수업에서 주로 다루는 서양의 과학관과 충돌할 수도 있다. 그러므로 서로 다른 자연관을 가지고 있는 학생과 교사들을 위한 과학교수학습 전략에는 개인의 자연관에 대한 이해와 이와 관련된 수업전략에 관한 고민이 필요할 것으로 생각한다. 더불어 앞으로 과학 교과서 및 과학수업에서 교사와 학생, 학생과 학생 사이의 상호작용을 더욱 활발히 하여 서로의 자연관을 공유하고 이해하려는 노력이 필요하며, 학생들이 가지고 있는 자연을 바라보는 관점과 밀접한 과학수업 문화를 좀 더 유연하게 조성할 필요가 있다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2006

학생들은 화학에서 입자 개념의 중요성에도 불구하고 이를 어려워한다. 이에 여러 연구자들이 이 개념에 대한 효과적인 교수 방법을 제안하였으나, 체계적인 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 따라서 이 연구에서는 학생들이 입자 개념을 학습할 때 그림 그리기와 그림 분석하기 방법을 도입한 수업의 효과를 조사하였다. 서울시 남녀 공학 중학교 1학년 세 학급을 통제 집단과 그림 그리기 집단, 그림 분석하기 집단으로 선정하여 물질의 세 가지 상태와 분자의 운동 단원에 대하여 총 8차시 동안 수업을 실시하였다. 학생들의 시각적 학습양식에 따라 개념 이해도, 학업 성취도, 과학 학습 동기에 대한 교수 방법의 효과를 조사하였다. 연구 결과, 그리기 집단과 그림 분석하기 집단의 개념 이해도, 과학 학습 동기 점수가 통제 집단에 비해 높았다. 또한 시각적 학습양식 선호 학생들의 과학학습 동기 점수가 비선호 학생들보다 높았다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.721-738
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• 2018

최근 유수 과학교육연구자들은 세계 여러 나라의 과학교육 현장은 물론, 과학교육 연구 전통에서 과학의 본성 교육의 중심축을 형성해 온 '합의 과학의 본성 관점'에 대한 비판과 옹호 및 대안적 견해들을 갑론을박 형세로 제기하고 있다. 합의 과학의 본성 관점은 다각적인 경로를 통해 NOS 교육 표준화를 위해 구축한 '보편적 과학 지식의 본성'에 해당한다. 그 교의에는 과학 지식의 잠정성, 주관성, 이론 의존성, 법칙과 이론, 관찰과 추론, 상상력과 창의성, 사회문화적 착근성 주제 등이 포함되며, 몇 가지 선언적 문장으로 구성된 리스트 형식을 취하고 있다. 본 연구자는 지금까지의 서구 과학교육 연구 내 NOS 개념화 전통은 물론, 현 시점에서 논의되는 NOS 교육의 동향을 파악하는 것이 현대적이며 미래 지향적 과학적 소양인 교육을 위해 필수적이라고 판단하였다. 이에 먼저 문헌 연구를 통해, 특히 과학에 대한 전체론적 인식론을 주창해 온 저명 과학교육 연구자들이 제시한 합의 NOS 관점에 대한 논쟁과 비판의 요지를 파악하여 제시하였다. 이어 과학의 본성이 갖는 본유적 가치는 다양한 학문적 렌즈를 통해 과학이 기능하는 실제 방식을 표현하는데 있으므로, 그러한 기능을 충분히 수행하도록 이끌 수 있는 과학의 본성 개념에 다가가기 위해, 여러 대안적 과학의 본성의 내용 요소에 대한 제안 및 과학의 본성 교육에 대한 의견들을 살펴 보았다. 즉 '과학의 본성 개념이 갖는 논쟁적 요소에 대한 교수', '비판적 과학의 본성', '비판적 사고력 과학의 본성', '전체 과학', '과학의 특성', '재개념화 된 가족유사성 접근 과학의 본성' 등을 고찰하여, 현대적 과학철학과 과학지식사회학에 기반을 두어 과학의 본성 내용 지식의 보편성과 다원성을 중심으로 그 함의를 제시하였다.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.167-180
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• 2019

This study was conducted to investigate effective ways to meet social and cultural interest in and needs of gardens and gardening. A total of 191 respondents who answered they were living in Gyeongnam region in the questionnaire were selected: 102 (53.4%) were males and 89 (46.6%) were females. In frequency of garden visits, 45% of the respondents answered they visited gardens once a year. Their preferred companion was family (43.6%), followed by friends/colleagues (24.3%). Their important motives of garden visits included admiration of gardens' scenery and ambience, pleasure in being outdoors, relaxing mentally and physically, and appreciation of plants. Relatively less important motives included understanding or educating about nature and environmental conservation, and interest in garden design and horticulture techniques. In the overall assessment of gardens and gardening, the quality of the establishment, management and operation of botanic gardens and arboreta in Gyeongnam region scored 3.32 scale, which was close to the level of 'fair.' Also, the respondents agreed at 3.91 scale that it was necessary to improve the garden creation, gardening, and garden culture. Meanwhile, many people in Gyeongnam region did not clearly understand differences between garden and public park, also had a very obscure perception of public garden. The results of importance-performance analysis (IPA) indicated that it is necessary to concentrate on directing and developing some programs such as admiration of beautiful and exotic plants, and education on garden culture including garden making and horticultural techniques.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.63-92
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• 2010

Recent years have seen an intensified discussion in many OECD countries about the role and mission of public research in the innovation system. This discussion takes place in quite specific national contexts, but should benefit from international experience. However, whereas voluminous literatures address the changing governance methods, organizational forms and missions of universities, much less attention has been devoted to developing a common understanding of the challenges faced by non-university public research institutions. The main goals of this paper is to contribute to clarifying the nature of these challenges, outlines possible policy answers and draws some implications for Korea. In the first section, the paper uses available internationally comparable indicators to review trends in the contribution of government research institutes (GRIs) to R&D and innovation activities. In the second section, the paper identifies the current major changes in the dynamics of innovation that may call for further adjustments in the positioning, organization and steering of public research institutes. Finally, the paper outlines some strategic objectives and orientations for the reform of public research institutes as part of the broader agenda of the Korean innovation strategy.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.548-558
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• 1990

Physiology and genetics of early maturity in cereals are the subject of practical as well as scientific interest for agronomist and plant breeders, Thorough understanding of the true nature of such a complex character requires physiological and genetical knowledge about the internal factors, which are closely bound up with and react to some particular external or environmental factors. From the practical point of view. experiments should be conducted under controlled conditions. especially the day length and temperature, so that the genotypic differences pertaining to these factors may be discerned. Takahashi and Yasuda (1958, 1970) maintained that at least three physiological factors were responsible for determining earliness in barley. namely. (1) spring and winter habit of growth or vernalization requirement, (2) ogitioeruiduc response or sensitivity to short-day, and (3) earliness factor in a narrow sense or minimal vegetative growth. The same situations were true in common wheat also (Yasuda and Shimoyama, 1965), In this report. physiology and genetics of internal factors and their relations to the time of heading in the field will be presented with some problems concerning differences in mechanism of early maturity between barley and wheat.