• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.501-510
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• 1997

Science teachers' beliefs about science and school science and their perceptions of the science laboratory learning environment were investigated with an assumption that science laboratory teaching would be affected by science teachers' beliefs. Likert-scale questionnaires of BASSSQ and SLEI were used in this study. The major findings were as follows: 1. Science teachers showed inconsistent beliefs about science and school science. Their responses reflected a patch-like view of postmodern epistemology and objectivism They also showed somewhat different views about science and school science. It was found that science teachers had strong objectivist views about science in some parts. but they had moderate constructivist views about school science in other parts; 2. The mean scores of student cohesiveness, integration. and rule clarity on the actual version in SLEl were relatively high, but those of open-endedness and physical environment were very low; 3. There was no association between teachers' beliefs about science and their perceptions of the science laboratory learning environment. But some associations were found between teachers' beliefs about school science and their perception on student cohesiveness, integration, and rule clarity of the actual science laboratory learning environment. Teachers' beliefs about school science had some statistically significant correlations with their perceptions on all scales of the preferred version of SLEI. We could not show a causal relationship between teachers' beliefs and their science laboratory learning environment through these results. But it can be suggested that teachers' beliefs about school science do have a role in constructing a desirable science laboratory learning environment, as we found that there were statistically significant correlations between them.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.117-133
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate the elementary students' views about lab-based science learning. For the purpose of this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty sixth grade students in 12 classes from two elementary schools located in Daegu City. The interview contents consisted of three major categories. The first category was related to attitude toward science lab, the second was related to lab-based science learning which had four sub-categories; recognizing lesson object, planning experiment, performing experiment, drawing conclusion in lab-based science learning in which the students had ordinary have views and expectations, and the last category was related to students' difficulties and something need to be improved in lab-based science learning. In-depth interviews were performed individually and the interviews were recorded. From the interviews, we found that students, in first category, do like lab-activities more than lectures or instruction-based activities in textbook. Students, in second category, wanted generally more discussion for their own activities rather than teacher's instruction and they wanted teacher' mediation conflicts within small groups and comments for students' experiment results. In the last, most of students had fears for some dangerous reagents and accidents. Based on the results, the study suggested that teacher need to give their students to autonomous discussion opportunities to design and interpret data through teacher' guided questions in inquiry steps, to produce some intimate atmosphere for active interaction in small groups, and to teach the safety education on some dangerous reagents.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.251-265
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• 2004

Conceptual teaming has been one of the important issue in science education, and its theory and method has been interacted with the studies of philosophy of science, cognitive science, and cognitive psychology. The last two decades have witnessed a remarkable growth of the study on brain-style computation, i.e. connectionism. This study aimed to investigate the properties of the connectionist views of the concept and its implications in the conceptual learning of science. In connectionist views, a concept was represented as a pattern of activity distributed over many connected units, and a kind of network composed of many sub-concept units. And the ＇distributed representation＇ had the features of the constructivity, the automatically generalization, and the tunability. On the base of these views, it was suggested that (ⅰ) ＇Typically-Perceived-Situation＇, a kind of mental representation rising spontaneously in an individual mind when someone is thinking about any object, should be highlighted, and (ⅱ) the roles of the sub-concept units in formation of concept and the resolution of concept into the sub-concept units should be highlighted. Finally the meanings of these implications in conceptual teaming of science are discussed.

• 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.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.643-649
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• 2010

이 연구에서는 고등학생들의 이론과 자료에 대한 인식론적 관점과 과학 과정 기술, 선호하는 실험 학습 환경에 대한 인식, 실험 수업에 대한 태도 사이의 관계를 조사하였다. 연구 결과, 과학 과정 기술, 선호하는 실험 학습 환경에 대한 인식의 모든 하위 범주(응집성, 개방성, 통합성, 준칙성, 물리적 환경), 실험 수업에 대한 태도는 이론과 자료에 대한 인식론적 관점과 유의미한 상관이 있었다. 중다 회귀 분석 결과, 과학 과정 기술, 선호하는 실험 학습 환경에 대한 인식의 하위 범주 중 개방성과 물리적 환경, 실험 수업에 대한 태도가 이론과 자료에 대한 인식론적 관점을 유의미하게 예측하였다.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2018

이 연구는 '학생들은 왜 과학을 공부해야 하는가?'라는 질문에 대한 초등 예비교사들의 자유로운 서술식 응답의 분석을 통해 그들의 과학학습의 가치나 필요성에 대한 인식과 그 교육적 시사점을 얻고자 수행되었다. 이 연구의 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 이 연구에 참여한 예비교사들은 과학의 내재적 가치 중시 관점과 외재적 가치 중시 관점에 대한 응답 비율은 거의 같았고 이들의 응답은 매우 다양하여 국내외 연구자들이 제시한 과학학습의 가치가 거의 다 포함되어 있다고 할 수 있다. 다만 최하위 범주의 세부항목 합리적인 의사결정자로서의 미래 시민 육성에 관한 것에 대한 응답 비율은 매우 낮았다. 둘째, 이 연구에 참여한 예비교사의 약 30%는 내재적 가치 또는 외재적 가치 중 어느 하나에 편향된 인식을 가지고 있다고 할 수 있다. 이들은 과학을 왜 배워야하는가에 대한 학생의 질문에 대해 어느하나의 가치 관점에 치우진 설명을 할 가능성이 높다고 할 수 있다. 따라서 초등 예비교사들에게 과학의 본유적 가치와 도구적 가치 두 관점 모두를 포함한 균형 잡힌 인식의 기회가 제공할 필요가 있다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.806-819
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• 2002

본 연구는 과학을 공부해야하는 필요성에 대한 초등학생과 초등교사의 관점을 조사하는 것을 목적으로 수행되었다. 서울시 소재 2개 초등학교 6학년 학생 565명과 초등학교 교사 57명을 대상으로, "과학을 왜 공부해야 하는가?"라는 질문에 대하여 예와 이유를 함께 응답하도록 하였다. 계통도 분석법으로 응답을 분석한 결과, 학생과 교사 모두 주로 가전생활용품이나 건강 증진, 재난이나 위기 극복 등의 일상생활과 관련된 예를 들어 응답하였고, 전체적으로 개인적 유용성 측면에서 일상생활의 용이성과 사회적 유용성 측면에서 일상생활의 편리성 증진을 위해서라는 응답이 주를 이루었다. 즉 과학 학습의 필요성에 대해 초등학생과 초등교사는 "(과학의 외재적 가치를 중시하는 관점에서 일상생활과 관련된 예를 들어가며) 개인적 차원에서 일상생활의 용이성을 증진시키고 사회적 차원에서 인류 생활의 편리성을 증진시키기 위해서"라는 관점을 주로 가지고 있었다. 또, 초등학생과 초등교사의 관점은 복합적이기보다는 단일적이었으며, 과학의 내재적 가치를 중시하는 관점이 상대적으로 빈약하였다. 이러한 초등학생과 초등교사의 관점은 과학의 사회적 의미와 역할이 증대되고 있는 현 시점에서 바람직한 관점으로 여겨지나, 다소 편중되어 있었다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.795-821
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• 2001

This Qualitative study investigated a preservice teacher's developing views of learning with the influence of constructivist epistemology taught in the Math, Science, and Technology Education (MSAT) Master of Education (M. Ed.) preservice teacher education program. The MSAT teacher education program employs constructivist aspects of teacher education and generates applications of constructivism to the practice of teaching, as revealed by faculty interview data. It is important at this point to emphasize that there are significant epistemological and ontological differences between different versions of educational constructivism (i.e., individual, radical, and social constructivism) and that these differences imply different pedagogical practices. For the 16 preservice teachers included in a larger study, the epistemological and ontological characteristics for each teacher's developing views of learning were identified through four in-depth interviews. Data from interviews were used to construct a constructivist profile for each preservice teacher's views of learning (i.e., a profile containing ontological beliefs, epistemological commitments, and pedagogical beliefs). Of the sixteen participants in the larger study, five significantly changed ontological and epistemological beliefs and eleven did not. Profile changes for the five who did change also resulted in changes in their conceptions of science teaching and learning (CSTL). In this article, one of the five teachers case was presented with rich quotes. This case study documents how a preservice teacher transferred his ontological and epistemological beliefs to his pedagogical beliefs and maintained the consistency between his philosophical beliefs and CSTL. It also demonstrated implications that changes in components for an educational constructivist profile have for a preservice teacher's view of himself as teacher. Data indicated the possibility that a constructivist-oriented preservice teacher education program can influence students' conceptions of science teaching and learning by explicitly introducing constructivism as an epistemology rather than as a specific method of instruction. Implications for both instructional practices of teacher education programmes and research are discussed.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.262-276
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the elementary teachers' views and students' views about the difficulties in teaching and learning on open inquiry activities of elementary school science. Semi-structured interviews were conducted individually with three elementary teachers who have serviced more than three years, and with twenty four elementary students attending schools located in Cheongju City. And their anecdotes were collected and analyzed. The interview questions were developed through Seidman's steps to acquire the reliability in the interview data. From the interviews and anecdotes, we found that elementary teachers' views about the difficulties of teaching open inquiry activities: the difficulties of teaching in finding inquiry problem and planning inquiry, the difficulties of managing group activities, the difficulties of managing class hours for inquiry, the lack of the students' inquiry abilities, and problems on students' affective characteristics. And the students have the views about the difficulties in doing open inquiry activities: the difficulties of finding inquiry problem and planning inquiry, being unaccustomed to write reports, the troubles with investigating, problems on affective characteristics, the difficulties of joining in a group, and the lack of inquiry abilities. The teachers give suggestions for effective application of the open inquiry activities: first, the teachers must encourage students' emotion and will in doing open inquiry activities, second, there must be the steady inquiry teaching and learning in ordinary elementary science classes. Based on the results, this study suggested that elementary teachers should concern specially about students' being unaccustomed to write reports and the troubles in doing scientific investigation.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.39-53
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• 2016

This study aimed to understand students' learning in elementary science classes in terms of participatory perspective. Participatory perspective is based on the participationist views on learning. Based on the participatory perspective, this study used two concepts of participationism: 'the changes of learning on commognition' of Sfard (2007) and 'the identity' of Wenger (1998/2007). Based on these concepts, four episodes of an elementary science class were analyzed. The results showed that students carried out their learning from objective-level learning to meta-level learning. And students defined who they are by identifying and negotiating scientific meaning during the learning. These results showed students become members of science community through their participations in science class.