• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.153-167
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• 2007

In this study, it is assumed that understanding the nature of science (NOS) would enhance students' performance of scientific inquiry in more authentic ways. The ultimate goal of this study is to suggest new models for developing scientific inquiry activities through understanding the NOS by linking the NOS with scientific inquiry. First, the various definitions and statements of the NOS are summarized, then the features of the developmental nature of scientific knowledge and the nature of scientific thinking based on the philosophy of science are reviewed, and finally a synthetic list of the elements of the NOS is proposed, consisting of three categories: the nature of scientific knowledge, the nature of scientific inquiry, and the nature of scientific thinking. This suggested synthetic list of the NOS is used to suggest a model of scientific inquiry through the understanding of the NOS. This list was designed to provide basic standards regarding the NOS as well as practical guidance for designing activities to improve students' understanding of the NOS.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.991-1009
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• 2002

This qualitative study investigated two preservice teachers' conceptual ecologies in professional development during the science teacher preparation program. The notion of a conceptual ecology contains nature of knowledge, science and science teaching, learning, and content knowledge and comfort level. The data were collected during the participants' preservice year and their practicum experience. Both data collections and analyzing were from the various sources of interviews, teaching observations, journals, and information and profiles by the participants' supervisor. Two preservice teachers serve as cases representative of this study. Results show that problems preventing the preservice teachers from moving closer to conceptual change teaching were their understandings of the nature of science and the nature of knowledge. The preservice teachers' views about knowledge come from, and what knowledge is, are largely shaped by the nature of science and learning drive pedagogy and classroom practice. Knowledge of and comfort with the subject matter are also important.

• 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.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.428-445
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• 2012

The objective of this study is developing an instrument for investigating views of the respondents on nature of science(NOS) by using experienced scientific knowledge, atomic model. It consists of total six questions and 36 detail items, and each question is reflected the aspects of different NOS which are 'recognition on the model', 'tentativeness of scientific knowledge', 'subjectivity in science', 'use of inference and imagination', 'myths of the scientific method', and 'comparison between science and art'. Particularly, 'comparison between science and art' is addressed almost for the first time in this questionnaire. In the class environment almost not to teach nature of science linking with concrete scientific knowledge, to inquire how the students recognize nature of science, relating to experienced scientific knowledge through this questionnaire will give the data of scientific knowledge based recognition on the nature of science and an important implication for nature of science teaching with concrete scientific knowledge. Developing processes have gone through four steps. In first step, we chose aspects of NOS and developed questions and details. In second step, we tested the draft into fifteen science teachers and, reflecting their opinions, corrected the form and contents of questionnaires. In third step, we tested the questionnaire included writing section for expressing thoughts of the respondents into 55 students in science high school and checked index of coincidence between Likert and open-ended responses which shows 88.2% degree of consensus. Furthermore, to identify the feature of using concrete scientific knowledge we applied this and views on science and education questionnaires together into six university students. We performed final test to 68 university students and measured Cronbach's, and ultimately completed final questionnaire in last step.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.207-212
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• 2014

The national reform document, Science for All Americans (AAAS, 1990), and the Next Generation Science Standards (NRC, 2012) emphasize the importance of the nature of science in guiding science educators in accurately portraying science to students. Therefore, it is important that textbook materials convey an accurate conception of the nature of science. This study employs content analysis to examine the content of textbooks in US and Korea elementary science textbooks with regard to the four aspects of the nature of science: (a) nature of scientific knowledge; (b) nature of scientific inquiry; (c) nature of scientific thinking; and (d) nature of interactions among science, technology, and society (Chiappetta, Fillman, & Sethna, 2004). Intercoder reliability was determined by calculating Cohen's kappa (Cohen, 1960). Findings show that while US elementary science textbooks are not balanced in presenting the four aspects of the nature of science regardless of the publishing companies, the presentation of the nature of science in Korean elementary science textbooks have better balanced treatment of the four themes across the grade levels. On the other hand, both US and Korean elementary science textbooks are attempting to convey an idea of what science is by emphasizing scientific knowledge and investigation.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.689-697
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• 2005

Science education has been in a state of crisis for some time. To understand the science teacher's role, it is helpful to reconsider an aspect as fundamental as the nature of science. Since teaching cannot be separated from learning and knowledge, their very close dynamic processes need to prescribe the role of the teacher and student simultaneously. However, traditional views are limited because they tend to emphasize some particular selected aspect of learning and teaching. This paper investigates the epistemology of Michael Polanyi (1891 1976), which is often considered to transcend the confrontation between objectivity and subjectivity of knowledge. Polanyi reconceptualized science knowledge as 'personal knowledge' based on his own experience as a scientist and a thinker. In this study, I discuss 1) the nature of science in light of Polanyi's epistemology, 2) what this says about the meaning of science learning and teaching, 3) the potential of these ideas for the role of the science teacher.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.207-216
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• 2014

Understanding the nature of science (NOS) has been a major component of scientific literacy and an important learning goal in science education (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1990, 1993; Millar & Osborne, 1998; National Research Council, 1996, 2013). To achieve this goal, it is necessary to include appropriate views of the nature of science in science curriculum such as a textbook. The aim of this study was to conduct a content analysis of the elementary science textbooks to examine the presentation of the nature of science (NOS) using the four themes of scientific literacy, which are (1) nature of scientific knowledge, (2) nature of scientific inquiry, (3) nature of scientific thinking, and (4) nature of interactions among science, technology, and society (STS). Findings show while $3^{rd}$ and $4^{th}$ grade levels of science textbooks heavily emphasize on the Theme I, nature of scientific knowledge and the Theme II, the nature of scientific inquiry, the upper grade levels such as $5^{th}$ and $6^{th}$ grades of science textbooks are well balanced with the four themes of the nature of science. In addition, most of elementary science textbooks little focus on the Theme IV, nature of interactions among science, technology, and society (STS) among the four themes of the nature of science. It might be a shortcoming because the understanding the nature of interacions among science, technology and society (STS) is one of the key components in order for students to be a scientific literate person.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.30-42
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• 2023

이 연구는 초등 예비교사들이 작성한 과학 일기를 양적·질적 분석하여 초등 예비교사들이 지닌 과학의 본성에 대한 관점의 특징과 그 변화 과정을 분석하여 범주화하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 초등 예비교사 13명이 쓴 과학 일기 112편을 분석하였다. 수집된 자료는 과학의 본성 4가지 영역의 연구 개념틀을 이용하여 영역별 빈도수를 분석하였고, VNOS-C 검사 분석틀을 이용하여 과학의 본성에 대한 관점 변화 양상을 귀납적으로 도출하여 유형화하였다. 그 결과 초등 예비교사들이 작성한 과학 일기에 나타난 과학의 본성에 대한 관점은 과학의 사고적 본성, 지식적 본성, STS적 본성, 탐구적 본성은 비교적 비슷한 비율로 서술되었으나 그 중 과학의 사고적 본성이 가장 높은 비율로 나타났고, 과학의 탐구적 본성이 가장 낮은 비율로 기술되었다. 과학 지식의 가변성, 경험적 증거의 중요성, 과학의 긍정적·부정적 작용에 대해서는 특히 집중적으로 언급되었다. 또한 초등 예비교사들의 과학의 본성에 대한 관점 변화 양상은 '고전적 관점 유지형', '현대적 관점 유지형', '회귀형', '발전형', '혼재형'으로 유형화 할 수 있었다. '과학 지식의 경험적 본성' 요소는 학생에 따라 변화 양상이 다양한 유형으로 나타났고, 대부분의 학생들이 과학 지식의 잠정성에 대해서는 현대적 관점을 여러 회기 동안 유지하였다.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.57-77
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• 2014

A longitudinal study traced changes in students' understanding of Nature Of science (NOS) through the public secondary science education in Ontario Canada. Although the concepts of NOS are complicated, and students' understandings are not easy to change, not many longitudinal studies have been done across the world. The current study tried to identify the changes of participating students' understandings of NOS for two and half years of public secondary science education in Ontario Canada. Pretest was administered using Views of Nature of Science (VNOS-C) when six participants graduated from a middle school of Toronto. Two and half years of secondary education, the posttest was carried out using the same instrument. After pre and posttest, probing interviews were performed. The analysis of the data was founded on the Standards and the conceptual framework for this study. The findings were that the initial views have little changed. Most examples and explanations the participants provided were from their science classes. Lab activities for confirming the existing laws and theories and observable photos in science textbooks made students regard the knowledge as a truth. Naturally, their knowledge has been expanded for 2 and 1/2 years, but this expansion of scientific knowledge led students toward Universalist views on science. On the other hand, when science was presented with a historical approach or was networked with other concepts, students acknowledged science and scientific knowledge had been induced from inferences as well as observations and experimental results. Based on the findings the authors of this research suggest that educating the knowledge of science should be historical and networked approaches rather than teaching the knowledge as concise and true statements of the nature.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.235-249
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• 2003

본 연구의 목적은 과학 교과교육학 지식의 본질과 역할이 무엇이며 어떻게 발달하는가를 알아보는데 있다. 구체적인 연구 문제는 첫째, 과학 교과교육학 지식의 본질과 구성 요소는 무엇인가? 둘째, 과학 교과교육학 지식의 가치와 교사의 과학 교과교육학 지식은 어떻게 발달하는가? 이다. 이를 해결하기 위해서 본 연구는 실증적이고 경험적인 데이터에 의한 문제해결보다는 문헌 연구를 통한 접근을 하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 과학 교과교육학 지식의 본질은 첫째, 교사 개인이 특정한 과학 수업 상황 속에서 과학 교과를 가르치는데 사용하는 과학의 내용 지식과 과학 교수방법 지식의 합성체를 의미하는 것이다. 둘째, 교사 자신이 가지고 있는 교수를 위한 독특한 지식체로서 과학 교사 전문성의 요체가 되며, 자질 있는 과학 교사가 갖추어야 할 가장 핵심적이고 필수적인 사항이다. 셋째, 어떤 특수한 상황에서 특수한 내용을 어떻게 가르치느냐에 관한 지식으로서 이것은 각 교사마다 독특하게 구성된 지식 체계에 따라 달라진다. 과학 교과교육학 지식의 구성 요소는 과학 교수에 대한 지향, 과학 교육과정에 대한 지식과 신념, 특수한 과학 주제에 대한 학생들의 이해에 관한 지식과 신념, 과학에서 평가에 관한 지식과 신념, 과학 교수를 위한 수업전략에 관한지식과 신념이다. 과학 교과교육학 지식의 발달은 교과 내용에 대한 개념적 지식이 충분히 형성되어야 하며, 이 내용 지식을 실제적인 교수 경험을 통하여 반복적으로 사용함으로써 발달한다.