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"Daffodil Gap": Reading Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy as Intertextual Interrogation of the Postcolonial Condition

  • Cho, Sungran
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.21
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    • pp.289-306
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    • 2010
  • In Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucy, the narrator grows up with the burden of colonial legacies embedded with Englands' imperial disciplinary projects, its language, educational institutions, discourses. Colonial education interpellates the narrator into a colonial subject through its multiple ideological discourses and systems. Teaching the literature of England is the most insidious form of the Empire's disciplinary colonial projects, more powerful than military enforcement: Its mode of operation is creating phantasy and instigating and planting desire for such phantasy. As Homi Bhabha aptly theorizes as colonial mimicry and ambivalence, the narrator as colonial subject grows up split and confused as an ambivalent subject, simultaneously mimicking and desiring for the phantasized England as real, while resisting and criticizing such up-bringing and mimetic desire. This paper explores Kincaid's rhetorical strategy of employing Wordsworth's poem, "I Wandered as a Lonely Cloud," especially her use of the flower "daffodil." Employing the concept of "daffodil gap" suggested by postcolonial critics, this paper closely examines two episodes involving the flower daffodil in the novel, one in a colonial classroom and the other in a garden in a new world and suggests that Kincaid accomplishes intertextual critique of colonial education and imperial projects.

An Analysis on Argumentation in the Task Context of 'Monty Hall Problem' at a High School Probability Class (고등학교 확률 수업의 '몬티홀 문제' 과제 맥락에서 나타난 논증과정 분석)

  • Lee, Yoon-Kyung;Cho, Cheong-Soo
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.423-446
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    • 2015
  • This study aims to look into the characteristics of argumentation in the task context of 'Monty Hall problem' at a high school probability class. As a result of an analysis of classroom discourses on the argumentation between teachers and second-year students in one upper level class in high school using Toulmin's argument pattern, it was found that it would be important to create a task context and a safe classroom culture in which the students could ask questions and refute them in order to make it an argument-centered discourse community. In addition, through the argumentation of solving complex problems together, the students could be further engaged in the class, and the actual empirical context enriched the understanding of concepts. However, reasoning in argumentation was mostly not a statistical one, but a mathematical one centered around probability problem-solving. Through these results of the study, it was noted that the teachers should help the students actively participate in argumentation through the task context and question, and an understanding of a statistical reasoning of interpreting the context would be necessary in order to induce their thinking and reasoning about probability and statistics.

A Case Study of Teacher's Role in Inquiry-Oriented Mathematics Instruction: Centered on Science High School Students (탐구-중심 수학 수업에서 교사의 역할에 관한 사례연구: 과학고등학교 학생들을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Ik-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.177-199
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    • 2008
  • In the Netherlands, Streefland(Elbers, 2003) gave a solution on how teachers can help students to participate in the process of knowledge construction by investigating constructions and activities of a community of inquiry for a primary school students(between 11 and 13 years of age). In Australia, Goos(2004) analyzed the teacher's role in creating a classroom culture of inquiry, which appeared to be taken for granted by the Grade 12 group, for the Grade 11 students by classroom observation and interviews. In Korea, because of diverse obstacles with a university entrance examination, a study about teacher's role in inquiry-oriented instruction for high school mathematics schooling has rarely appeared in the literature. The purpose of this study is to investigate teacher's role for promoting and managing inquiry-oriented mathematics instruction effectively by a case study. To fulfill this purpose, we develop inquiry-oriented instruction model by investigating teacher's role as an assistant for helping students to do mathematical activity.

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A Study on the mechanism for discoursive constitution of meaning and subject appeared in "Educational crisis" by Korea mass media ("교육위기" 담론의 의미와 주체구성 방식 연구: 한겨레신문과 조선일보 기사를 중심으로)

  • Kang, Jin-Suk
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.33
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    • pp.7-52
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze two mechanisms appeared in Educational crisis by Korea mass media, which are discoursive constitution of meaning and the mechanism for discoursive constitution of subject. The analysis will classify ideological characteristics and conflict opposition of conservative and progressive media. As background for chosen case study, language structure and combination methods in Theory of Discourse of M. $P\hat{e}cheux$ will be discussed. Specifically, choices and combination methods of the chosen language structure-the preconstructed, articulation, mechanism, and structuring method of ideology will be main topics. Following case study will be Chosun and Hankyoreh newspaper, each representing conservative and progressive side. Discussion regarding educational crisis news, such as "Collapse of Classroom", "Collapse of School" is selected, and analyzed in terms of insight story, cause and responsibility, and taken measures.

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Literary Texts in the English Classroom: An Integrated Approach to English Instruction (영어 교실의 문학 텍스트 -영어교육의 통합적 접근)

  • Kang, Gyu Han
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.107-128
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    • 2009
  • Literature had been at center-stage in the traditional grammar-translation-focused English classrooms up to the mid-twentieth century. As the Audiolingual Method and the Communicative Language Teaching have gained popularity in the English classrooms, however, literature has receded into the background of English education. The main reasons for using literary texts in the English classrooms for communication-focused English instruction need to be examined. First of all, students can come in touch with the subtle and varied uses of language through literature-based teaching. They also feel close to certain characters in the literary work and share the emotional reponses with them. They get personally involved in the plot of the story. Universal human experience and cultural enrichment are two other merits which can be conferred on students by literary texts. Such linguistic and literary experiences can be significantly integrated into the literature-based instruction. More significantly, the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) can be combined with one another and integrated into a literature-focused curriculum for English education. The value of literary texts in the English classrooms can be clearly demonstrated by effective ways of using such texts as Charlotte's Web for integrated instruction. The full array of benefits that literature can bring to English instruction, however, has yet to be fully realized. These potentials need to be materialized into classroom practice.

Using Film Music for Second Language, Target Culture, and Ethics Education: With Reference to the OST of The Lion King (제 2언어, 문화 및 윤리 교육 자료로서의 영화 음악 활용: 라이온 킹 OST를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hye-Jeong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.509-519
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    • 2017
  • This study addresses the effective utilization of film music as learning material for language, target culture, and ethics education. Music is intertwined with language and culture, and even with ethics. This study focuses on the potential power of film music in the processes of teaching and learning in a classroom. For this purpose, five songs are selected from the soundtrack of Disney's famous animation The Lion King: "Circle of life", "I just can't wait to be king", "Be prepared", "Hakuna Matata", and "Can you feel the love tonight?", and concrete learning activities are suggested based on these. Using these five songs, gap-filling and singing-recoding tasks are proposed as listening and speaking activities respectively. Film music is also very useful in learning vocabulary, sentence structure, and grammar. Learners participate in a writing activity involving creating their own lyrics for the tunes reflecting their experiences. Next, for culture education, a teacher asks their students to discuss about, and be aware of, food culture using a specific character's song. Finally, for ethics education, a philosophy of life, natural logic, leadership qualities, and the motto Hakuna Matata("no worries") are explored and discussed through an analysis of the lyrics. The open-ended questionnaire survey is conducted. The result shows that music has a positive effect on culture and ethics education. Film music can be effective in learning a second language, target culture, and ethics.

The Effects of Restaurant Video Taping and Job Communication Drawing Board Production Activities on Cooking Job Skills of High School Students with Intellectual Disabilities (식당 비디오 테이핑 및 직무 의사소통 그림판 제작활동이 지적장애 고등학생의 조리직무기술에 미치는 효과)

  • Kim, Young-Jun;Kim, Wha-Soo
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2022
  • This study was conducted with the aim of verifying the effects of restaurant video taping and job communication drawing board production activities on cooking job skills of high school students with intellectual disabilities. The study participants consisted of three students with intellectual disabilities enrolled in the high school course of a special school, and the experimental environment consisted of a kitchen in the restaurant and a classroom in the special school. For the research design, the technique of multiple probe design across subjects according to a single subject research was used. The intervention program consisting of independent variables was applied as a linkage procedure in which study participants videotaped the kitchen's environmental facilities, tools, materials, and staff perform cooking job skills and then taped data from the classroom scene on a job communication drawing board. Cooking job skills consisting of dependent variables are defined as the performance of research participants cooking gimbap directly in the kitchen of the restaurant. As a result of the study, it was found that participants effectively acquired, maintained, and generalized cooking job skills through intervention programs.

A Study on the Educational Methods of Self-Narrative Writing for University Students (대학생 자기 서사 글쓰기의 교육 방안 연구)

  • Hyun-ju Kim;Young-ha Yang
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.357-366
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    • 2023
  • In the purpose of this study, the college textbooks of self-narrative writing and examples of classroom practice are analyzed to find a way to educate it. The self- narrative writing subject with a learning of recognization, expression, and communication with oneself, emphasizes the necessity when they become college students through entrance exam-oriented education. The research methods are as follows. Firstly, three university textbooks which include a section on self-narrative writing were compared and analyzed. The analysis highlights the needs for a textbook covering self-narrative writing more extensively and comprehensively as what is offered by the existing textbooks is limited in facilitating students to fully develop the ability of self-reflection, which should be dealt as a long-term goal. Secondly, the current discussion on self-narrative writing and examples of real classroom practice were analyzed. It shows that a step-by-step approach is required to encourage the practice of deep self-reflection to be incorporated into writing. In addition, during the writing process, various correction and feedback activities should be carried out on a macro level and gradually while the communication and feedback should take place not only between a teacher and students, but also among students. As a result, it is expected that this study will help establish a teaching model of self-narrative writing by seeking complementary points and educational directions for self-narrative writing.

Research Trends in Adaptation of Young Children from Multicultural Families : A Review of Articles (2006-2017) (다문화가정 유아의 적응에 대한 연구동향 분석: 국내 학술지를 중심으로)

  • Yoon, Gab-Jung;Son, Hwan-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Arts Education Studies
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.81-109
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to identify research trends in adaptation of young children from multicultural families in order to provide insights for researchers around research topics and cultural adaptation orientation of young children from multicultural families. Subjects of this study were 41 literatures with key words of'young children from multicultural families', 'adaptation', and'life'through paper search system. This study was analysed the research themes, methods, subjects, and perspectives of cultural adaptation in adaptation researches of young children from multicultural families, 2006-2017 from peer reviewed journals with analysis frameworks. The results showed that : (a) the most common research topic continues to be about adaptation conditions of young children from multicultural families; (b) among research methods, quantitative research has most frequently used in, followed by qualitative methods, mixed methods, and literature review; (c) cultural adaptation was focused on the perspective of social-cultural adaptation, developmental importance of adaptation in early childhood and problems-based research. It implicated that further researches are need to focused on psychological adaptation and formation of classroom community beyond personal and structural adaptation in preschools.

Exploration of Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Korean Adolescents' Motivation (한국 청소년의 학습동기에 영향을 미치는 사회문화적 요인 탐색)

  • Mimi Bong;Hyeyoun Kim;Ji-Youn Shin;Soohyun Lee;Hwasook Lee
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.14 no.1_spc
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    • pp.319-348
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    • 2008
  • Self-efficacy, achievement goals, task value, and attribution are some of the representative motivation constructs that explain adolescents' cognition, affect, and behavioral patterns in achievement settings. These constructs have won researchers' recognition by demonstrating explanatory and predictive utility that transcends various social and cultural milieus learners are exposed to. Korean adolescents' motivation is generally in line with this universal trend and can be described adequately with these constructs. Nonetheless, there also exist a host of indigenous factors that shape these motivation constructs to be uniquely Korean. The purpose of the present article was to explore some of the socio-cultural factors that appear to wield particularly determining effects on Korean adolescents' academic motivation. Review of the relevant literature identified interdependent self-construal, traditional morals of filial piety, familism, educational fervor, academic elitism, and the college entrance system as important cultural, social, and policy-related such factors. Also discussed in this article were the roles of these factors in creating more immediate psychological learning environments for Korean adolescents, such as parent-child relationships, teacher-student relationships, and classroom goal structures.

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