• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.6 no.2 s.12
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• pp.131-183
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• 2006

The Korean genetics and genomics reveal a firm willingness to participate in and contribute to the production of creative scientific knowledge at a world level at present, though they have short past histories of introduction from the Western counterparts and those of education for the next generations. But the Korean genetics and genomics have been developed in a fragmented and biased manner. By reconfiguring the various research projects of genomics into the Genome Project of Korea, which reflect a worldly trend in life science, but have been established in a scattered fashion in Korea, and incorporating some neglected areas of genetics, such as human genetics and theoretical and population genetics which can be reconstructed in a new way, a genetics-genomics research system can be formulated on the multi-tiered perspective of concept, knowledge, and institution, while the system being a subsystem of the national research system of life science in Korea. Innovation can be pursued in the systematic practice through a culturalist strategy. The culturalist strategy with the practice based on the research system consists of 1) intensification of fundamentalness of genetics and genomics, 2) advancement of communitarianism in geneticist-genomicist community, 3) research on the cultural bio-species along with the promotion of scientific arts and culture, and 4)formation of the Korean science studies of genetics-genomics and the diffusion of the knowledge produced. The first two strategy components are the ones that intends to bring out changes in the structural aspect of the scientist community in Korea. The third is the one that attempts to magnify the interface between the scientist community and the Korean society at large and increase its connectivity between both, while the fourth is the one that has an intentionality toward the Korean society outside of the scientist community. This culturalist strategy is intended to increase the cultural constructivity of the genetics-genomics research system in Korea.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.33 no.1 s.368
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• pp.22-23
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• 2000

미국에 유학중 박사과정을 마칠 때쯤인 92년 P/A 건축상을 받은 김병선교수는 건축 분야 중 건축환경 분야에서 주목받는 과학인이다. 학교에서 '빌딩 사이언스 연구실'을 운용하고 있는 김교수는 "건축이야말로 막대한 자금과 노력을 필요로 하는 대상이고 잘못된 설계는 개인적으로나 국가적으로 큰 손실을 가져다주므로 사회적 필요성이 절실히 요구되는 분야"라고 강조한다.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.7-41
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• 2018

The projects of citizen science which is originated from citizen data collecting action driven by governmental institutes and science associations have been implemented with different form of collaboration with scientists. The themes of citizen science has extended from the ecology to astronomy, distributed computing, and particle physics. Citizen science could contribute to the advancement of science through cost-effective science research based on citizen volunteer data collecting. In addition, citizen science enhance the public understanding of science by increasing knowledge of citizen participants. The community-led citizen science projects could raise public awareness of environmental problems and promote the participation in environmental problem-solving. Citizen science projects based on local tacit knowledge can be of benefit to the local environmental policy decision making and implementation of policy. These social values of citizen science make many countries develop promoting policies of citizen science. The korean government also has introduced some citizen science projects. However there are some obstacles, such as low participation of citizen and scientists in projects which the government has to overcome in order to promote citizen science. It is important that scientists could recognize values of citizen science through the successful government driven citizen science projects and the evaluation tool of scientific career could be modified in order to promote scientist's participation. The project management should be well planned to intensify citizen participation. The government should prepare open data policy which could support a data reliability of the community-led monitoring projects. It is also desirable that a citizen science network could be made with the purpose of sharing best practices of citizen science.

• Korean Journal of Rural Living Science
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• v.3
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• pp.53-62
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• 1992

• Korea and Global Affairs
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.149-170
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• 2017

This paper aim to find activities related to science and technology in the field of Official Development Assistance in Korea and to research its meaning. In order for Korea to achieve greater results through international cooperation in science and technology and ODA, it seems to be the primary task to establish a foundation for collecting social opinions. In other words, when civil society and the private sector are not willing to participate, international cooperation has many limitations in achieving substantial benefits because it embodies the problem of domestic politics. And the science and technology ODA will be a factor considered to be more important variable in the international political order in which multiple actors such as supranational organizations and social organizations play a role in the multi-layer.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.248-257
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• 2001

The 7th science curriculum has the characteristics of humanistic philosophy of education. The humanistic curriculum emphasized learner-centered education, which claims to stand for learners' experiences. This study searched for the significances of the 7th science curriculum, and discussed its tasks and perspectives based on the backgrounds, characteristics, and objectives mentioned in the history of reforming science curriculum. The 7th science curriculum emphasizes learners' experiences and everyday life materials are favored in teaching-learning activities. For the desirable effects related to this commitment, pre-service and in-service training programs are required about the social elements in the nature of science, and everyday life contexts should be examined in views of educational and cognitive perspectives, so the contextual differences between science and everyday life should be clarified.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.85-97
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• 2001

This study was to gain a suggestion how to educate the science gifted student and manage the science gifted education center by analyzing the science gifted student's perception of the science, scientist and vocation. One seventy and eight science gifted students were involved in the questionnaire to investigating the perception of science, scientist and vocation. As the results, many of science gifted students thought the convenience as the positive aspect of science and the environmental pollution as the negative aspect of science. Science gifted students considered most scientists a diligent person, researcher and what's more, they are careless about home. They suggested much more of foreign scientists like Einstein, Edison, etc. than Korean ones as respectable scientists. Scientist is a major vocation that they want and know in the science area, while some students want to be a doctor, occurred to science singer. The mystery, difficulty, complexity, scientist, etc. occurred to science gifted students when they heard the ‘science’. According to the results, there are in need of the new educational programs for the science gifted students and science gifted education center. One of the aims of the science gifted education center is the judgment and cultivation of the science gifted student. Therefore, the science gifted student to be educated to improve positively the images of science and scientist. In addition to, they should get a concern about the vocation in science area and to be a famous scientist.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1-35
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• 2013

The aim of this article is to criticize the discourses and practices of the appropriate technology for international development cooperation in Korea which focus narrowly on the technologies and are oriented to the providers of technologies. To present an alternative, we will discuss the appropriate technology by the insights from 'socio-technical system' studies which underline not only technological side but also the social, institutional and user's side, and analyze the interactions between them. This research deals with several cases mainly regarding small scale's renewable energy from Laos, Thailand, Bangladesh, Mongolia and Nepal. We put out some suggestions to improve the discourse and practices of appropriate technology in field of international cooperation by Korea.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.178-184
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• 2021

농림기상학은 농업생명과학을 구성하는 세부 학문 분야를 포괄할 수 있고, 생태-사회시스템을 구성하는 다양한 하부 시스템 간의 관계를 구명할 수 있는 학제간(interdisciplinary) 더 나아가서 모든 이해관계자가 함께 참여하는 초학문(transdisciplinary) 과학이다. 시대적 필요성에 따라 서울대에서는 2012년에 공식적인 대학원 교육 조직으로서 농림기상학전공 협동과정을 설치하였다. 지난 10년 동안 성과도 있었지만 향후 발전을 위해 개선해야 할 점도 있다. 이 글에서는 이 협동과정 설립 10주년을 맞이하여 내가 농림기상학에 대해 관심을 갖게 된 계기를 만들어준 세 분의 과학자를 소개하고, 협동과정 설립을 주도했던 사람으로서 초기의 생각과 상황을 정리하고, 향후 발전을 위한 기대를 공유하고자 한다.

• The Science & Technology
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• no.8 s.447
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• pp.14-17
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• 2006

서울대 58년 역사상 첫여성 처장으로 임명됐던 노정혜 연구처장(생명과학부 교수)이 7월말로 2년간의 임기를 끝냈다. 노 처장은 지난해 우리 사회를 혼란스럽게 했던 황우석 박사의 줄기세포 논문조작 사건을 맡아 진실 규명에 중요한 일을 해낸 것으로 평가받고 있다. 당시 노 처장은 전국민을 대상으로 한 방송 생중계에서 차분한 어조와 절제된 표현, 힘 있는 발언으로 강한 인상을 남겼다. 또 서울대 자연대 수석 졸업, 20대 서울대 여교수 임용, 강금실(전법무부 장관), 김영란(대법관)과 고교 동기 등의 사실이 알려지면서 노 연구처장에 대한 개인적인 호기심을 불러일으키기도 했다. 정운찬 서울대 23대 총장의 이임식이 열리던 지난 7월 19일, 서울대 본부의 연구처장실에서 그를 만났다. 그는“과학자가 행정업무에 적합하지 않다는 것은 선입견일 뿐”이라며“과학자는 합리성을 갖고 있기 때문에 오히려 더 잘할 수 있다”고 밝혔다.