• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.459-466
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• 2012

This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry in terms of designing exploration and reasoning that is used to formulate explanations based on evidence. The research context was an open inquiry with using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) template in which participant students were not provided with inquiry questions. As data, lab. 39 pre-service elementary teachers participated in this study while taking their science methods course. Analyses of the reports were framed by the cognitive processes of inquiry (Chinn and Malhotra, 2002) and each report was coded and analyzed by the framework of inquiry (Tytler and Peterson, 2004). Results showed that groups' works that utilized the SWH template encouraged the participants to interact each other about scientific inquiry. They came up with more relevant and testable questions for their scientific inquiry. It implicates that children will be able to have chances of testing their own questions more properly by using the SWH template in science classes just as the participants did in this study. The use of the SWH template would help pre-service teachers to teach appropriately how to test inquiry questions to their students in the future. Discussion was made to figure out the characteristics or Korean pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.61-73
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• 1992

In response to epoch-making development in science and technology, the innovative curricular materials have been begun to develop since the late 1950s and early 1960s. However, the new inquiry-centered materials have failed to be successfully used in teaching/learning practices of science. Among the various reasons for the failure, the very nature of the inquiry approach has been identified as the most critical problem. Nevertheless, fostering inquiry faculties on the part of the students has been emphasized as one of the most important objectives of science instruction. Therefore this study was conducted for the purpose of developing a practical inquiry-oriented instructional method. In order to obtain this goal the nature of scientific inquiry was analyzed and the status quo of science education in which inquiry-oriented instructional strategies were applied was examined. The results of the study are described in this paper.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.75-86
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to analyze the content of environmental inquiry activities and values of elementary school students written in their reports of the Energy Environment Inquiry Activity Contest which is a unit contest of the Youth Science Festival held annually in Korea and get some ideas for the valuable way of Korean environmental education. 10 teams' reports were gathered and the locality, class study area, inquiry theme, inquiry method and values were analyzed and introduced as case studies to get some insights to teach elementary school students environmental values through inquiry activities of science subject approach. Each teams set various inquiry themes in the content domain of energy resources and earth environment conservation focusing on each team's geographical characteristics and occurring environmental problems in their local areas. There were 16 sentences representing technocentrism and 12 sentences representing ecocentrism. 5 of 10 teams showed both of technocentrism and ecocentrism in their reports. But their was only scientific knowledge without any environmental values in one team's report. Inquiry activity is a good teaching-learning method to develop environmental literacy. There should be environmental values involved as far as it is the environmental inquiry activities using environmental subject matter. The result of this study proposes that environmental educators should actively intervene for inquirers to set a stage in the whole process to search for an alternative to solve environmental problems involved in their project activities. The reason is because the environmental education in the elementary school is established to operate by the infusion way into various subjects already existed in the Korean curriculum.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.33-46
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• 2021

과학교육에서 탐구는 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있으며, 탐구와 관련된 연구가 폭넓게 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 '탐구'라는 개념의 포괄성으로 인해 연구자마다 그 의미를 다르게 인식하고 있으며 접근 방법도 다양하다. 또한 과학교육에서 탐구를 활용한 수업의 성과가 실제학생들에게 유의미한 변화를 보장하는 것은 아니라는 비판이 제기되고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 과학교육에서 최근 3년간 탐구를 주제로 한 SSCI급 연구 논문의 동향을 살펴봄으로써 탐구와 관련된 연구내용을 탐색하고 추후 연구에 필요한 시사점을 도출하고자 하였다. 분석에 활용된 연구물은 International Journal of Science Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Research in Science Education, Science Education이며, 핵심 주제어에 "inquiry(enquiry)"를 직접적으로 제시하고 있는 연구물로 한정하였다. 추출된 논문 75편을 토대로 유목화 과정이 이루어졌고, 주제와 특징을 반영하여 귀납적으로 분석틀을 도출하였다. 탐구에 대한 인식 및 관점, 탐구 학습을 위한 전략 및 지원, 탐구 기반 수업을 위한 교사 전문성 발달의 세 가지 측면으로 나누어 각 범주별 구체적인 사례를 제시하였다. 과학 탐구에 대한 시사점을 살펴본 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 탐구를 함축적 명제로 정의하거나 몇 개의 단계적 절차로 제시하기보다는 탐구의 의미를 보다 종합적이고 총체적으로 파악하도록 유도하고 있었다. 둘째, 탐구 기반의 수업이 과학의 인지적, 기능적, 정의적 영역의 모든 측면에서 효과적인가에 대해서는 그 한계를 명확히 제시하고, 맥락 의존적이고 교과 특이적인 탐구의 속성과 한계를 파악할 것을 강조하였다. 셋째, 과학 탐구 기반 수업에서 불확실성은 학습자가 탐구를 시작하고 관심을 갖도록 하는 데에는 도움이 될 수 있으나, 자료를 인지하여 지식을 재구성하는 과정에서는 명시적이고 구체적인 안내와 비계가 적절한 타이밍에 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.573-584
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• 2015

오랜 기간 동안 과학교육 분야에서 탐구는 과학 학습의 핵심적인 목표이자 수단으로 자리매김해왔다. 그러나 교육 실천의 맥락에서 탐구 활동을 온전히 수행하기란 결코 녹록하지 않으며, 탐구의 역할과 기능에 대한 논의는 여전히 분분하다. 따라서 과학교사들이 실제로 탐구를 지도하면서 겪는 어려움을 비판적으로 검토하는 일은 반드시 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 탐구를 지도하는 교사에 초점을 두고, 예비교사의 탐구에 대한 인식과 실천 사이에서 나타나는 갈등의 양상을 질적 사례연구를 통해 살펴보고자 했다. 연구 참여자는 과학교육을 전공하는 8명의 대학생들이다. 이들은 약 1년 동안 주말 과학 프로그램에서 저소득층 중학생들의 보조교사와 멘토로 활동하면서, 방학 기간에는 자유로운 방식으로 담당 학생들의 탐구 활동을 지도하였다. 연구의 사례는 '자유탐구에서 수행하는 예비 과학교사의 탐구지도 활동'으로, 참여자의 개인면담과 집단면담과 참여관찰 기록, 자기보고서 등을 연구 자료의 분석에 사용하였다. 그 결과, 예비교사들은 학습자의 능동성뿐만 아니라 교과 지식과 연역적 절차 역시 탐구 활동을 가능하게 하는 중요한 요인으로 인식하고 있었다. 그러나 예비교사들이 실제로 탐구를 계획하거나 수행할 때, 인식과 실천 사이의 간극으로 인해 딜레마와 마주했다. 딜레마의 양상은 '발산하는 탐구와 수렴하는 과학', '흥미 중심의 탐구와 학습 중심의 탐구', '학습 주체로서의 학생과 부족한 지식인으로서의 학생'의 세 가지로 정리하였다. 끝으로 예비교사들의 딜레마 해소 과정을 논의하면서, 탐구와 과학교사에 대한 대안적인 관점을 제안하였다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.860-869
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• 2008

본 연구의 목적은 과학영재들의 과학탐구문제발견 능력을 신장시키기 위한 지도방향을 제안하는 것이다. 이를 위해서 낮게 구조화된 탐구 상황과 높게 구조화된 탐구 상황에서의 문제발견 활동 중에 과학영재들이 생성한 과학탐구문제의 특성에 대해 심층적인 분석을 하였다. 분석한 결과, 탐구목적에 따른 유형별 빈도는 탐구 상황에 따라 차이를 보였으나, 두 활동에서 생성된 대부분의 탐구문제들은 7개의 동일한 유형(측정, 방법, 원인, 가능성, 무엇, 비교, 관계)으로 나타났다. 탐구문제에 언급된 과학적 개념의 빈도수는 높게 구조화된 탐구 상황에서의 문제발견 활동(PFAWIS)이 낮게 구조화된 탐구 상황에서의 문제발견 활동(PFAIIS)보다 더 많았으나, 과학적 개념의 다양성은 PFAIIS가 PFAWIS보다 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 교사는 첫째, 낮게 구조화된 과학적 탐구 상황에서의 과학문제발견 활동의 기회를 자주 부여해야한다. 둘째, 일반 과학 실험 중에도 새로운 탐구문제를 발견할 수 있음을 강조하고, 실험 중에 생성한 탐구문제들에 대해 토의하는 시간을 자주 가질 필요가 있다. 셋째, 과학탐구문제를 최소한 7개 이상의 유형별로 생성할 수 있도록 지도하도록 한다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.202-212
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to examine the connection among inquiry activities related to 'Metabolism' presented in life science textbooks developed according to the national common basic curriculum. To perform this, the type, process and context of inquiry activities of life science textbooks were analyzed. The number of inquiry activities is gradually increased from elementary to secondary school. As result of analysis, types, processes and skills, and context of inquiry were not balanced according to textbooks and school levels. It is suggested that the framework of evaluating inquiry activities based on curriculum objectives be provided when developing science textbooks. It also implies that teachers need to reconstruct inquiry contents and activities suitable to school situations when they teach in the real fields of education.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.77-89
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• 2004

This study aims to consider interrelations and reasonability to inquiry elements of environment units in 10th Science textbooks of 7th curriculum on the basis of their inquiry contexts, processes and activities. Frequency of inquiry contexts is 59.9% of the highest value in natural environment context but is 4.0% of the lowest one in techno-industrial context. Measurements, inferences, predictions, experiments, data-interpretations, correlations, conclusionreveals in inquiries are in all the textbooks, but observations and classifications, hypothesis generations, controlling variables, experimental designs and generalizations are not in some textbooks. Discussions, experiments, investigations in inquiry activities are included in all the textbooks. However, inspections are not appeared in the all the books. Based on the above results, social and techno-industrial inquiry contexts in the varied scopes are necessary in the environment curricula with a unified direction. Inquiry processes with pro-environmental behaviors as a last goal might be given into the curricula, having tasks that could be understand unified inquiries. In addition, inspections with effectiveness might be thrown into the scene of education.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.155-165
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to look into self-concept and teaching anxiety of elementary school teachers about inquiry instruction in science class, and investigate correlations among them. For this study, the survey was carried out on 338 elementary school teachers, and the interview was conducted with 5 of them. The results of this study are as follows; Self-concept of elementary school teachers about inquiry instruction in science class was more positive than usual. And the teachers who were male, older and majored in science education showed more affirmative self-concept about inquiry instruction in science class. Teaching anxiety of elementary school teachers about inquiry instruction in science class was less than usual. And the teachers who were male, older and majored in science education showed less teaching anxiety about inquiry instruction in science class. The correlation of self-concept and teaching anxiety of elementary school teachers about inquiry instruction in science class was an negative interrelation. This presents that the teachers, who have more positive self-concept about inquiry instruction in science class, have less teaching anxiety than those who have more negative one. Consequently, teacher training and retraining programs should be developed and conducted by grasping teachers' self-concept and their anxiety, to reduce anxiety about inquiry instruction in science class.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.541-557
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• 2012

Interest is acknowledged to be a critical motivational variable that influences learning and achievement. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interest of the elementary students when free inquiry activities were performed through a brain-based evolutionary scientific teaching and learning model. For this study, 106 fifth grade students were chosen and performed individually free inquiry activities. The results of this study were as follows: First, after free inquiry activities, as to free inquiry science related attitude, a statistically significant difference was not observed. But they came to have positive feelings about the free inquiry. Especially students marked higher mean score in openness showed consistency in sub-areas of free inquiry science related attitude. Second, students had interests in various fields, especially they had many interests in area of biology. They chose inquiry subjects that seems to be easily accessible from surrounding and as an important criterion of free inquiry they thought the possibility that they could successfully perform it. And students who belong to the high level in the science related attitudes and academic achievement diversified more topics. Third, most of students failed to further their topics. However, the students who specifically and clearly extended their topics suggested appropriate variables in their topics. On the other hand, students who couldn't elaborate their topics were also failed to suggest further topics and their performance of inquiry was more incomplete. In conclusion, the experiences of success in free inquiry make the science attitude of students more positive and help them extend their inquiry. These results have fundamental implications for the authentic science inquiry in the elementary schools and for the further research.