• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.617-631
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• 2002

This study has examined 5-year students in the kindergarten and students in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th grade in the primary school to analyze their perceptions about scientists. science, and how they apply science in their daily lives. First, students have 4 stereotypic images on scientists, specifically in 'indoor', 'male', 'lab coat'. and 'scientific instrument'. There were significant differences in stereotypic images on scientists depending on genders and ages. Girls and primary students showed higher scores than boys and kindergarten students did. respectively, in stereotypic images on scientists. No differences were observed for the stereotypic images on scientists among primary students, regardless of their grades. Second, most of students were interested in science. Depending on grades, there were significant differences in their preference for science. Students in higher grades showed lower scores than those in lower grades did. In addition, only a few of them hoped to be a scientist in the future. Boys showed higher scores in their hope to be a scientist in the future than girls did. The students in lower grades showed higher scores than those in higher grades. Third, most of children thought themselves doing activity-oriented science in school. Outside school, however, they did not use the knowledge and skills they had learned for science in school. Students in the primary school showed more concept-oriented perception for science than those in kindergarten did. This perception was gradually increased as the grades of the students go up.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.72-86
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to examine what epistemological beliefs pre-service teachers have about science depending on the situation, and to explore in-depth changes in epistemological beliefs through disciplinary reading. For this purpose, 77 essays written by pre-service elementary school teachers after reading Feynman's 'the meaning of it all' were analyzed using an inductive analysis method. As a result of the study, the epistemological beliefs of pre-service teachers were divided into two situations: 'science in subject learning' and 'science in daily life', and the epistemological beliefs formed in the 'science handled by scientists' situation were analyzed after reading the book. Each situation was divided into sub-categories of 'Impression of Knowledge', 'Source of Knowledge', 'Justification of Knowledge', 'Variability of Knowledge', 'Structure of Knowledge', and 'Value of Knowledge Acquisition' to reveal differences in sophisticated beliefs and naive belief levels. As a result, it was derived that Feynman's science lecture influenced pre-service teachers in terms of establishing new perspectives and recontextualizing existing epistemological beliefs. This study is meaningful in that pre-service teachers' scientific epistemological beliefs may vary depending on the situation, and that the scope and depth of epistemological beliefs may be expanded to include scientists' beliefs in science through disciplinary reading.

• 한국과학교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.01a
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• pp.125.2-125.2
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• 2008

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.391-405
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• 2011

The nature of science has been recognized in a great deal in the field of science education. However, only few innovative programs are offered for science-gifted students to improve their recognition of the nature of science. The current study describes and analyzes science-gifted students' understandings of the nature of science (NOS). In addition, the study looks into contradictory views among the aspects of NOS, which are fundamental data in constructing target programs on NOS for science gifted students. Data used in this study were collected from 73 middle school science-gifted students using an open-ended questionnaire, VNOS. The results of this study showed that the participants' understanding of NOS was significantly distributed on naive or transition view except for 'tentative NOS', and the results revealed inconsistent view among the aspects of NOS. This study proposes two suggestions to enhance the recognition of science-gifted on NOS of science to informed state and to have consistent perspectives with other areas. First, the role of experiment has to be changed-it should be the process in constructing scientific knowledge rather than an instrument to check scientific knowledge to transform perspective on experimental data and scientific knowledge. Second, various opportunities must be provided to science-gifted students, so they can experience the culture and community of scientists and science to gain a wider insight of science.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.260-266
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• 2007

대개 학교에서 이루어지는 과학 실험은 추상적인 과학 지식이 실제에 어떻게 적용되는지를 보여주기 위한 것이다. 그러나 많은 경우 학습자들은 실험을 하더라도 그 실험이 어떤 의미를 가지고 있는지 이해하지 못한다. 이 연구는 초등 예비교사를 대상으로 하였으며 실험 활동과 관련된 과학사를 연극의 형태로 도입하여 실험 내용에 대한 이해를 증진시키고자 하였다. 먼저 전자기 유도에 관련된 몇 개의 실험을 실시한 후 패러데이의 전자기 유도 발견에 관한 짧은 과학 연극을 준비하고 실시하였다. 그리고 이러한 과학 연극의 도입이 이전에 실시한 실험 내용(실험 결과와 이에 대한 해석)을 이해하는데 도움이 되는지를 알아보기 위해 실험 직후, 과학 연극 실시 직후 동일 검사지를 실시하여 비교 분석하였다. 또한 과학 연극을 실시하는 것이 과학 학습에 도움을 주는지에 대한 예비교사들의 의견도 설문을 통해 조사하였다. 연구 결과 과학 연극을 실시한 직후 이전에 실시한 실험의 내용을 이해하고 그 실험으로부터 얻은 지식을 적용하는 능력이 향상된 것으로 나타났다. 연극 공연자가 관람자에 비해 실험에 대한 이해가 더 많이 증가하였지만 통계적으로는 유의미한 차이가 없었다. 또한 80% 이상의 참여자가 과학 연극이 실험 내용의 이해에 도움이 되는 것으로 안식하였으며 공연자가 관람자보다 더 긍정적으로 인식하였다. 참여자들의 반응으로부터 어떠한 점에서 과학 연극이 과학 학습에 도움이 되는지, 과학 연극의 장점과 한계점이 논의되었다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.743-752
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of scientifically gifted students' views on the nature of science. A multiple-choice format questionnaire was administered to 237 Korean 10th, 11th and 12th graders at the Korea Science Academy. The differences and similarities by gender and experience of R&E program on the students' views of the nature of science were investigated. The questionnaire developed by Lim(2004) was implemented for this investigation. We found that the majority of scientifically gifted students had highly possessed the tentativeness of scientific knowledge. The students who experienced R&E program have relatively high apprehension of scientists' motivation for researches and activities in social context compared to the students who did not experience an R&E program. Scientifically gifted students had relatively high apprehension that government should not control researches of scientists and relatively low apprehension of social responsibilities of scientists comparing to general high school students. The experience on R&E program was identified as a factor to effect changes in the students' views on the nature of science. The study has implications for the development of gifted program and curriculum such as running and assessing R&E program, and also the pre-service preparation of science teacher, teacher education reformat in both the practical and the policy levels.

• 한국체육학회지인문사회과학편
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.111-121
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was 1) to investigate professional sports fans' perception of immigrants and changes of athletes' nationalities, and 2) to examine how the fans' perception affected the perception of changes of athletes' nationalities. Results indicated that first the fan showed a neutral attitude toward the immigrants. In the results of the regression analysis containing foreign athletes naturalized as Korean citizens as the dependent variable, independent variables (i.e., gender and acceptance) explained 39.1% and 38% of the dependent variable, respectively, within [naturalization positive]. Within [naturalization negative] female fan and exclusive perception of immigrants positively predicted the objection to changes of athletes' nationalities. Lastly, in the results of the regression analysis containing Korean athletes who naturalized as foreign citizens as the dependent variable, fans who were older and rated higher on exclusive perception of immigrants had more negative perception of the dependent variable. Female fans perceived changes of athletes nationalities as personal choice.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.511-523
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• 2019

In this age of the $4^{th}$ industrial revolution, we, science educators, are giving more light on students' agentic behavior in the process of educating future scientist. This study, with the analytic lens of epistemic agency, explores the key stages of a student-driven R&E program rather than the scientist-led R&E program. It also examines to understand the emergence of students' epistemic agency in each stage of R&E. Data from participant observation for 18 months and in-depth interviews were collected and analyzed with the constant comparative method of grounded theory. This study identifies and describes five key stages of student-driven R&E: The stage of exploring research theme, designing research, performing lab activity, interpreting results, and communicating research. It also finds that (a) students' epistemic agency emerged with the constant interactions with the R&E structure; (b) students' epistemic agency has deep relations with the epistemic beliefs of the students; (c) students positioned themselves as decision-makers in the R&E practice; (d) the redistributed power and authority of the R&E contributed to the emergence of students' epistemic agency.

• 한국과학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2015.12a
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• pp.119-135
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• 2015

이 논문의 주된 목적은 문헌 분석을 토대로 '예측'에 관한 STS적 이해와 함의를 제공하는 데 있다. 역사와 철학적 측면에서 볼 때 '예측'은 과학기술의 발전과정에 존재해왔다. 과학적 연구방식에서 '예측'과 관찰은 필수적이었고, 물리학, 기상학 등과 같은 분과학문에서도 '예측'은 중요한 역할을 차지했다. 기술의 혁신과정에 있어 미래에 대한 예상과 기대(expectations)에 대한 연구의 중요성은 로젠버그(Rosenberg, 1982)가 일찍이 강조한 바 있으며, 최근에는 STS 연구자들이 이러한 기대의 중요성에 주목하여 이른바 '기대의 사회학'(sociology of expectations)이라는 연구분야를 개척해왔다. 이 분야에서 초창기부터 활동해 온 반 렌트(van Lente, 1993)에 따르면, 기술의 혁신과 발전과정을 이해하기 위한 삼각 축, 즉 인공물(artefacts), 행위자(actors), 어젠다(agenda) 중 어젠다에 해당하는 기대와 전망(expectations and promises)에 관한 연구는 상대적으로 부족했다. 이러한 현실 인식은 우리나라의 STS연구에서 여전히 유효하다. 기술에 대한 기대와 전망은 단순히 '행위자'에 종속된 아이디어 차원이 아니며, '예측' 그 자체가 기술혁신분야에서 중요한 연구대상으로 주목될 필요가 있다. 최근에는 미래를 연구 대상으로 하는 미래학(futures studies) 분야가 형성되어 STS연구와의 접점이 확대하는 중이다. 이 논문에서는 이러한 현실 인식을 바탕으로 과학기술을 구성하는 중요한 요소로서 '예측'에 주목하고, 이러한 '예측'의 STS적 함의와 연구방향을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.282-290
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• 2008

The Research and Education (R&E) program was a year-long, apprenticeship and research-based program that was guided by mentors who are scientists or science teachers. The objective of the R&E program was to help scientifically gifted students in Korea Science Academy (KSA) and Science High Schools (SHS) to enhance abilities in creative thinking, scientific inquiry, problem solving, positive attitude towards scientists, and promoting cooperative research and interests in science and technology. In this study, the impact of the R&E program on the goals of 182 gifted college students in KAIST was evaluated using Likert-type items and multiple-choice method approach that provided a more comprehensive evaluation of the program's impact on science attitudes, creative thinking, scientific inquiry, and interests in science and technology. The results indicated a positive impact on cooperative research, gaining knowledge on the research topic, attitude towards scientists, interest in science and technology, scientific inquiry, and creative thinking in that order. There were rather remarkable and meaningful differences in science inquiry (p<.05), and scientific knowledge (p<.01), between the two groups of KAIST freshmen who came from SHS and KSA in 2006. Implications for science apprenticeship or a research-based mentorship program and their respective evaluations are also discussed.