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Yet Another Paradigm Shift?: From Minds-on to Hearts-on

  • Song, Jin-Woong;Cho, Sook-Kyoung
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.129-145
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    • 2004
  • Since science was first taught in schools, maybe during the 18th century, school science education has experienced many substantial changes in its goals and nature over the period. The historical changes are usually referred to by some key terms, like, mechanics' institutes, object lessons, heuristics, general science, inquiry, STS, misconceptions. To characterize these changes, science educators frequently use some slogan-like analogies, referring to parts of the human body to indicate the movement of science education during a particular period of time: for example, 'Hands-On' for inquiry movement during 1960s-70s, 'Minds-On' for constructivist movement during 1980s-90s. In this paper, we briefly summarize the overall historical development of science education in Britain, then further expand the analogies to cover the overall process, that is, Ears-On ${\to}$ Eyes-On ${\to}$ Hands-On ${\to}$ Minds-On. To illustrate future directions of the 21st century, we propose a new analogy, 'Hearts-On', and also discuss the meanings and implications of a 'Hearts-On' analogy by illustrating how this new paradigm can be applied to reflect various current trends of science education, particularly in Korea. In addition, a parallel historical change between school science and science museums & centres is discussed.

Thre Relationaship of Scientific Knowledge and Ethical Value in Environmental Education (환경교육에서 과학적 지식과 윤리적 가치의 관계)

  • 김정호
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.51-62
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    • 1997
  • The objective of this study was to review the meaning and problems of Scientific Knowledge and Ethical Value in Environmental Education. The ultimate goal of environmental education is shaping proenvironmental human behavior. The factors of human behavioral decision making are ideology, value, attitude and behavioral intentions. Ideology is a kind of belief system used by social groups to interpret their social world. The main elements of belief system are knowledge and value. The traditional thinking in education has been that we can change behavior by making human beings more knowledgeable and more valuable. In environmental education, the aim of scientific inquiry is to analysis cause-effect relation of human beings behavior and environmental phenomenon, and ethical education is to change the mind of human beings from zero-sum to positive-sum about the relations between human beings and natural environments. But, there are many problems of knowledge education and value education in environmental education. For example scientific knowledge without ethical value is dangerous to environment protection, and ethical value without scientific knowledge is vague. Therefore, we must recognize that the relationship of ethical value and scientific knowledge is not substitutional but complementary. The teaching-learning methods which can integrate knowledge and value in environmental education are rational decision making model. For this model, we can construct teaching contents with inquiry materials. To earn the benefits of specialization among several subjects in environmental education, social studies can focus on social science knowledge and decision making, science education can focus on pure natural science knowledge and scientific investigation, moral education can focus on problems of ethical value system, home economics can focus on practical action and environmental education(Environments in middle school, Ecology and Environments in high school) can integrate social-national science knowledge and ethical value in broad perspective about human beings and ecosystem. That is the method to protect from law of diminishing marginal utility of learning in environmental education.

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The Effect of the ASI Program on the Scientific Creative Problem Solving Skill and Science Learning Motivation of Science Gifted Students (ASI 프로그램이 과학영재 학생들의 과학 창의적 문제해결력과 과학 학습 동기에 미치는 효과)

  • Lee, Sang-Gyun;Kim, Soon-Shik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2012
  • This study investigates the effect of ASI program on the improvement of gifted students' scientific creative problem solving skill and science learning motivation. ASI developed by reflecting the characteristics of scientific inquiry. The study was aimed at Twenty elementary gifted students from C Gifted Education Program participated in the sixteen sessions of ASI curriculum from June 2010 to October 2010. First, we found that the ASP program is effective to improve the gifted students' scientific creative problem solving skill overall. Specifically, the ASI was effective in the sub-catagories of scientific creative problem solving skills such as 'fluency', 'flexibility', 'originality', and 'appropriateness'. However, there was no significant change in the sub-category of 'reliability' and 'elaborateness' Second, we found that the ASP program is effective to improve the gifted students' sscience learning motivation overall. Specifically, the ASI was effective in the sub-catagories of science problem solving skills such as 'intrinsic motivation', 'correlation with personal goal', 'self-determination', and 'fear of evaluation'. However, there was no significant change in the sub-category of 'extrinsic motivation' and 'self-efficacy'. summary, the ASI program was shown to be effective for improving their scientific creative problem solving skill and scientific learning motivation; This study implies that the ASI curriculum would be a effective tool to help gifted students to improve their ascientific creative problem solving skill and their motivation to learn science.

The Introduction of Electronic Trade System to Small and Medium Sized Company & The Analysis of its Economic Effect (중소기업의 전자무역 시스템 도입방안과 경제적 효과 분석 - 가치사슬분석과 시뮬레이션 분석 방법론을 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Bok-Jae
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.3-21
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    • 2008
  • This research investigates the strategy for application of E-Trade to SMEs to analyze the economic effect of e-trade. And the influence of the proliferation of e-business and e-trade upon the industrial business conditions, value-chain, and business activities is also analyzed. The subjects of the inquiry are the nationwide petrochemical industries in which small and medium sized companies are in mutual and intimate cooperation. The results show that the business structure of the petrochemical industries are divided into four stages, and, with the introduction of e-business, the value chain is changed by stages. And the change of value-chain explains the transition of the e-business of petrochemical industries including trade business into industrial DB and leads to a variety of the economic effect including the reduction in the trade expense, the change of the production process, and the innovation of trade structure.

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A Study on the Change in the Housing of Jeju City for the past Fifty Years (제주시제 실시이후 50년간의 주거 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Lim;Kim, Bong-Ae
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.283-287
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    • 2004
  • Jeju City has been developed and changed variously by influence of industrialization and urbanization since Jeju City was erected into a city on September 1st of 1955. The purpose of the study is to offer information and data for establishing housing policy and urban planning for being considered the change of housing in Jeju City for the past fifty years. The method of the study is an analysis of documentary records and data and an inquiry of literature. The results are following: 1) The population of Jeju City has increased six times ever before. 2) The ratio of housing supply is 95.3% and the ratio of renting houses has increased than before in terms of the type of occupation of housing. 3) The ratio of collective house is higher than detached dwelling's in term of the type of housing units.

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Development of a Negative Emotion Prediction Model by Cortisol-Hormonal Change During the Biological Classification (생물분류탐구과정에서 호르몬 변화를 이용한 부정감성예측모델 개발)

  • Park, Jin-Sun;Lee, Il-Sun;Lee, Jun-Ki;Kwon, Yongju
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.185-192
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to develope the negative-emotion prediction model by hormonal changes during the scientific inquiry. For this study, biological classification task was developed that are suitable for comprehensive scientific inquiry. Forty-seven 2nd grade secondary school students (boy 18, girl 29) were participated in this study. The students are healthy for measure hormonal changes. The students performed the feathers classification task individually. Before and after the task, the strength of negative emotion was measured using adjective emotion check lists and they extracted their saliva sample for salivary hormone analysis. The results of this study, student's change of negative emotion during the feathers classification process was significant positive correlation(R=0.39, P<0.001) with student's salivary cortisol concentration. According to this results, we developed the negative emotion prediction model by salivary cortisol changes.

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An Interpretive Inquiry into the Guidance Experiences of Senior Elementary Teachers (초등학교 원로교사의 생활지도 경험에 관한 해석학적 탐구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.111-133
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was closely to explore the guidance experiences of senior elementary teachers who have had over 30 years of teaching experiences in elementary school based on interpretive(or hermeneutic) inquiry. The entry research question was 'What are the guidance experiences of senior elementary teachers like?' Seven senior elementary teachers working for O elementary School in G city participated in this study voluntarily. Each participant was interviewed twice in a consecutive manner. 14 periods of interview were completed all together and each period took about 40-60 minutes. In conclusion, this study conceptualized the guidance experiences of the senior elementary teachers(participants) as follows: First, the concepts of guidance held by the participants were conceptualized as 1) supporting and caring activity helping students to lead joyful school life, 2) assisting activity helping students to grow on good basic life habits, 3) character building activity helping students to lead integrative growth. Second, the fields and contents of guidance held by the participants were conceptualized as basic life habits, manners, and health & safety. Interestingly, these concepts were evolved in connection with their personal, practical teaching experiences rather than in-service teacher education. Third, the guidance methods frequently used by the participants were co-work with parents, exemplary storytelling, counselling, and praise. The participants applied these methods differently according to the grade, individual difference, and school curriculum policy to some degree. Fourth, the participants have experienced a lot of struggles with students, teachers, and parents in doing their guidance practices throughout the whole teaching career. Their guidance experiences commonly shifted from more teacher-centered or authoritative to more student-centered or relational way as their teaching years accumulated. Interestingly, all the participants more or less lived as lifelong learners to create their own right space as senior teachers in today's competitive and challenging landscape. This study strongly suggests that responsible teacher education can playa great role of enabling senior teachers to cope with guidance issues successfully. Compared with the speedy social change, the teacher education in Korea had been so authoritative, provider-based, subject-based until recently and it have not met the needs and wants of the elementary teachers in field. This trend has significantly hindered them from catching up with the needs of the speedy social change in terms of contemporary guidance issues. This study is limited in that the data is solely collected based on interview. So, an observational research is strongly suggested in order to uncover the situated understanding of the guidance experiences of elementary senior teachers.

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An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry on the Process of Becoming-Scientist for Science Teachers (과학교사의 과학연구자-되기 과정에 관한 자서전적 내러티브 탐구)

  • Kwan-Young Kim;Sang-Hak Jeon
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.369-387
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    • 2023
  • This study aims to interpret the experience of science research in a graduate school laboratory from the perspective of Gilles Deleuze's concepts of "agencement" and "becoming". The research was conducted as an autobiographical narrative inquiry. The research text is written in a way that tells the story of my science research experience and retells it from the perspective of Gilles Deleuze. In Deleuze's view, science research is a constantly flowing agencement. The science research agencement is composed of a mechanical agencement of various experimental tools-machines and researcher-machines as well as a collective agencement of speech acts such as biological knowledge, experiment protocols, and laboratory rules. Furthermore, science research agencement is fluid as events occur all over the agencement. Data, as a change occurring in the material dimension, is an event and sign that raises problems. It has the agency to influence agencement through an intersubjective relationship with researchers, and the meaning of data is generated in this process. The change of agencement compelled me to perform science practice. I have performed repeated science practice, meaning that my body has constantly been connected to other machines. As a result of this connection, my body has been affected, and the capacity of my body that constitutes the agencement has been augmented. In addition, I was able to be deterritorialized from the existing science research agencement and reterritorialized in a new science research agencement with data. This process of differentiation allowed me to becoming-scientist. In sum, this study provides implications for science practice-oriented education by exploring the process of becoming-scientist based on my science research experience.

A Study on the effect of Learning organization activities on the Job burnout -Trustworthiness as a Moderating variable- (학습조직활동이 직무소진에 미치는 영향 -상사 신뢰성의 조절효과를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Jin-Wook;Chang, Young-Chul
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.185-211
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    • 2016
  • This study examined the impact of learning organization activities on burnout and the moderating effect of supervisor trust in a learning organization. The results of the study shows that among the activities of a learning organization, independent variables in this study, promoting inquiry and dialogue as well as encouraging collaboration and team learning affect burnout. In other words, the dedication of an organization to creating a culture in which various learning approaches are experimented through questioning and giving feedback as well as collaborative learning that can reinforce the effective use of team resources have an impact on reducing emotional exhaustion, which is considered to be at the core of burnout. Plus, these factors reduce impersonalization, which is activated to prevent further emotional exhaustion by dealing with customers, colleagues and jobs in a cold, negative and perfunctory way. In this study, the dimensions of promoting inquiry and dialogue as well as encouraging collaboration and team learning were found to reduce the decline in personal sense of achievement of an employee with a negative assessment of himself or herself derived from a lack of achievement in his or her job. Supervisor trust (integrity, benevolence and ability) had a moderating effect on the relationship between strategic learning leadership and impersonalization/emotional exhaustion. This suggests that the trust of supervisor helps mediate and moderate the emotional exhaustion and impersonalization of organizational members by encouraging leaders to drive change and take the organization to a new direction. The study has provided implications that communication plays an important role in reducing burnout in the learning context such as positive, appreciative inquiry and feedback analysis to identify strength, and that supervisor trust is critical in order to ensure strategic learning leadership exerts greater influence on the organization.

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The 19th CPC National Congress and the Development of the Chinese Constitutional System in the New Era: From the Perspective of the History of Constitutional Change (十九大与新时代中国宪制的发展 : 基于宪法变迁史的视角)

  • Wang, Jianglian
    • Analyses & Alternatives
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.71-106
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    • 2018
  • The 19th CPC National Congress has a key historical significance in the development of China's constitution. It will also play a decisive role in the history of the seventy years'constitutional change in New China. XiJinping's new socialist thought with Chinese characteristics established in the report of 19th CPC National Congress will be written in the preface of the March 2018 National People's Congress's constitutional amendment. The fifth revision of 1982 Constitution will touch on many issues such as the leadership of the CPC into the constitution, the abolition of the tenure of the president, the constitutional oath system, and the reform of the national supervisory system. In addition, the constitutionality review system, the establishment of the National Security Council, the constitutional status of socialist public property and private property and the adjustment of major economic system has become a hot topic in the theory field. In the history node towards a socialist country ruled by law, the theory and practice of the China indeed have the academic ideas, value position and path model differences, which will delay the Chinese constitutional development, but also is the necessary pain in the process of moving towards the rule of law in China. Indeed, how to the development and where to go in the future of Chinese constitutionalism itself has sample value, which deserves rational attention and in-depth inquiry from Chinese and Western academics.

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