• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.450-458
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• 2012

This study explored ways to implement a competencies-based curriculum in schools by reviewing exemplary cases that have introduced Key Competencies (KCs) in the school science curriculum. Since the OECD redefined key competencies as 'what people should know and do in order to lead a successful life in a well-functioning society', many countries have emphasized the use of a competencies-based curriculum. Foreign and domestic classroom cases, which have used a competencies-based curriculum in science teaching, were collected and analyzed. Through open-ended interviews with teachers and principals, we investigated changes of teachers' professional knowledge and practice that were evident as a result of the implementation of competencies-based curriculum in science class. Foreign science teachers suggested ways to relate competencies-based curriculum and science curriculum including maintaining a balance between competencies-based curriculum and content-based curriculum. They also integrated KCs into all subject-based curriculums, gave priority to KCs over subject matter knowledge, and developed KCs through teaching science contents that students wanted to learn. On the other hand, Korean science teachers suggested reconstructing competencies-based curriculum by extracting common attributes from the existing subject areas. They also made KCs realized through content teaching, and developed various KCs within science contexts. Implications of the competencies-based curriculum for science teaching and learning were discussed at the end.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.17-30
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• 2001

The 7th Science Curriculum of Korea is applied in elementary schools from 2000, and the New Science Curriculum of Japan is applied in schools from 2002. In this study, we made a comparison between the 7th Science Curriculum of Korea and the New Science Curriculum of Japan in relation to Elementary school in aspects of construction, aim, and contents. The major findings of this study are as follows. 1. The New Science Curriculum of Japan presents a specific aim, treatment of content, and process skills according to grade, but the 7th Science Curriculum of Korea does not classify them according to grade. Hence the 7th Science Curriculum of Korea emphasize on the sequence between grades. 2. In aim of Science Curriculum, the 7th Science Curriculum of Korea show more emphasis on the practical application than the New Science Curriculum of Japan. 3. In construction of content, a area of science content is handled with gradual advance in several grades and several areas of content are treated in a grade in the 7th Science Curriculum of Korea. On the contrary, a area of content is treated intensively in a grade in the New Science Curriculum of Japan. Therefore, the 7th Science Curriculum of Korea shows more reflection of connection and hierarchy between grades. 4. The statements of the 7th Science Curriculum of Korea are centering around specific matters and include specific activities, but the New Science Curriculum of Japan focuses on concepts to team and does not state specific activities.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.164-176
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to find some suggestions for reorganization of contents about particle concept of matter in Korean science curriculum. For the purpose of this study, authors analyzed features of Korean science curriculum and compared science curricula of Korea, USA, UK, Japan and Finland. From the result of this study, authors find some features and important suggestions about reorganization of contents about particle in science curriculum. First, the sequence of contents about particle concepts in 2009 Revised National Curriculum was similar to that in the 6th National Science Curriculum. And the feature of 2009 Revised National Curriculum showed the articulation of contents about particle concept. If contents about particle concept is increased in elementary science curriculum, the total articulation would be increased. Second, the presenting sequence of atomic structure-first and laws about atom-later should be changed to laws about atomic-first and atomic structure-later. This presenting sequence is grounded by science curricula of other countries, history of science and developmental psychology. And science curriculum of Korea was required specific extended concept statement like science curricula of USA or UK. Also, Korean science curriculum could benchmark Finnish science curriculum if we want to develop some integrated learning activities such as those in STS or STEAM program.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.730-744
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• 2006

The United States curriculum reform movement has recently started in each area of science education. The initiatives on curriculum reform stem from a notion that the low rate of science curricula offered in schools has been a serious problem. The schools in the United States are not only facing a lack of offerings within science curricula but also low enrollment in science courses, especially in physics, chemistry, and earth science. This trend resulted in low performances on international achievement tests including TIMSS and PISA. This paper introduces the efforts to solve existing problems through curriculum reform; including ChemCom, BioCom, EarthComm, and Active Physics. In this paper, a discussion is presented to show how the curricula can help address the status quo in science education. More specifically, this paper focuses on curriculum reform in high school earth science (EarthComm), providing a closer look at the scope and sequence of the reform movement. EarthComm was chosen because it was released based on the development of the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996). Consequently, EarthComm became a curriculum that espoused the visions of the Standards, which has been guiding the reform of the US curriculum. At the end of this paper, two research outcomes of the EarthComm curriculum implementation in schools are discussed in terms of student learning and differences from conventional curricula.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.183-193
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• 2015

Teacher guidebooks are practical and commonly used resources for teachers to deliver the goals and contents of science curriculum in classroom teaching. Thus, the alignment of teacher guidebooks and science curriculum could be critical to undertake the effectiveness of curriculum implication in science classrooms. This study is to investigate how the learning objectives of science curriculum are implicated in teacher guidebooks by analyzing the dimensions of knowledge and cognitive process in learning objectives in both documents. Grade 3~4 learning objectives (82 objectives in the curriculum, 459 in the teacher guidebook, 541 in total) in 2009 Revised science curriculum and teacher guidebooks were coded and analyzed based on the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. The analysis focused on how the knowledge dimensions and cognitive processes of the curriculum were emphasized and restructured in the teacher guidebooks to examine the coalition between the two important documents. The study found: 1) the learning objectives in Grade 3~4 in both documents were skewed to certain knowledge dimension (conceptual) and cognitive process (understand); 2) there was a high coalition between unit objectives and lesson objectives in the teacher guidebooks, however, relatively low coalition between the curriculum and the teacher guidebooks; and 3) learning objectives in the curriculum were delivered in teacher guidebooks in various patterns (similar, detailed, additional, in portion, and the same), and 'detailed' and 'additional' were frequently shown. There also appeared new objectives in the teacher guidebooks, which were not present in the curriculum. The findings in this study could provide some suggestions to the current project of developing 2015 Science Curriculum in regard to understanding the dimensions of knowledge and cognitive process of learning objectives and their alignments with textbooks and teacher guidebooks.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.102-115
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• 2019

This study investigated how elementary school teachers reconstruct science curriculum and how they perceive about their experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with four elementary school teachers who had experience in restructuring science curriculum. Two distinct types of reconstruction were found; restructuring within the subject and integrating between subjects. The teachers who were restructuring science curriculum from personal needs usually substitute, delete, add some contents or activities and change the order of unit within science subject. In contrast, the teachers who were participating in research school usually integrated science with other subjects, developing a new unit or project. The latter recognized the need of teachers' reconstruction of science curriculum more strongly and the importance of teacher's voluntary learning community in implementing the reconstruction. Though they had some difficulties in identifying students' interests and level of understanding and lack of time, all teachers valued curriculum reconstruction by relating it to teacher professional development, identity as a teacher, and job consciousness.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.621-630
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• 2020

이 연구는 몽골과 한국의 중등 지구과학과 교육과정 내용을 비교 분석하여 양국의 지구과학과 교육 내용을 점검하고 향후 지구과학 교육과정 개정에 필요한 기초 자료를 마련하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 연구 문제는 첫째, 몽골과 한국의 지구과학 교과의 변천 및 현행 운영실태를 파악하고, 다른 국외 사례와 비교 분석하며, 둘째, 몽골과 한국의 지구과학과 교육과정의 내용을 비교 분석한 것이다. 과학과 교육과정에 포함되어 있는 지구과학 관련 내용을 비교 분석하기 위해서 중학교는 TIMSS 평가틀을 활용하였고, 고등학교는 미국의 차세대 과학교육 표준(NGSS)과 한국의 고등학교 지구과학과 교육과정 내용을 혼합하여 전문가의 타당도 분석을 거쳐서 분석틀을 만들었다. 연구 결과, 몽골과 같이 러시아식 교육 체제를 따르고 있는 국가들에서는 지구과학을 독립적인 과학과목으로 편성·운영하지 않았고, 지리교과의 자연지리 영역에서 지구과학 관련 내용을 다루었다. 몽골과 한국의 중학교 과학과 교육과정에서 다루는 지구과학 내용을 분석한 결과 TIMSS 내용분석틀의 27개 내용 요소 중에서 몽골은 18개가 일치했고, 한국은 20개가 일치했다. 한국의 몽골의 고등학교 지구과학 관련 내용은 한국보다 매우 간략하게 서술되어 있었고, 다루지 않는 내용이 많았다. 특히, 몽골 지리 교과과정에서는 환경 관련 내용을 많이 다루었다. 몽골의 지구과학 교육과정 운영 방식과 환경 관련 내용의 강조는 한국의 과학과 사회 교과의 간학문적 통합형 교육과정을 개발시 참고가 될 수 있다.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to provide meaningful basic materials for organizing a science curriculum in future by analyzing the status and changes of contents about astronomical phenomena in textbooks according to the changes of the science curriculum of elementary school. A main target of analysis is science textbooks of elementary school in curriculums from 1st to 7th. For the analysis, the analytic frame based on contents in astronomy textbooks of teachers colleges and colleges of education was used. The result of the analysis is as in the following. First, astronomy accounted for average about 7% of all pages of textbooks in all of science curriculums. The 1st educational curriculum had the most learning quantity of 10.40%, and the 6th curriculum had the least quantity of 4.39%. These results show that astronomy was not a small part and was considered important in each science curriculum of elementary school considering that earth science accounted for 17-26% of all pages in elementary school science curriculum. Second, the things that have been dealt with in common in all science curriculums from 1st to 7th of elementary school are the shape of the earth, the rotation and the revolution of the earth, the occurrence of the seasons, the apparent motion of the sun, the status and motion of the moon, the movement of a star, the brightness and distance of a star, constellations, the sun, planets and others. These contents are expected to be dealt with continuously as basic contents to organize astronomy regardless of the changes of curriculum. Third, in science curriculum of elementary school, astronomical phenomena based on life experiences regarding the earth, the moon and the sun are mainly dealt with in the first and the second grade. Contents requiring principles-understanding and research are dealt with in the fifth and sixth grade. These results show that elementary school science curriculum dealing with astronomy reflects the developmental stages of students and considers principle of learning possibility.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.194-206
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• 2002

This article describes the major themes to change in historical and philosophical perspectives of science education that lead the US and Korean science curriculum reform movements since 1957. Inquiry teaching and criticism of teaching science as inquiry in the late 1950s and the 1960s, Science-Technology-Society (STS) Curricula, and Science Literacy and the 1980s science literacy crisis are discussed. In the US, three major curricular projects as responses to the scientific literacy crisis are exemplary such as the Project 2061 sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Project on Scope, Sequence, and Coordination (SS&C) initiated by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), and the National Science Education Standards (NSES) published by the National Research Council. To identify how each set of national content standards differ, we compared specific content standards related to the theory of plate tectonics in Earth and Space science in grades 9-12 over the three national standards: Benchmarks of AAAS, NSES of the NRC, and SS&C of the NSTA. Against this historical background of the US science education reform movements, the curriculum reform movements in Korea is briefly discussed. In general, Korean science curriculum reform movements have reflected and resembled the recommendations of the US reform movements. In addition, it is important to note that throughout the history of curriculum revision in Korea, there have been continuing pendulum swings between a theoretical, discipline-centered curriculum and a liberal, humanistic, and student-centered curriculum, which pays more attention to students in terms of their interest and psychological preparedness. In conclusion, the sixth and seventh national science curriculum revisions reflect rather a student-centered movement by reducing technical and sophisticated topics, taking constructivism learning theory into consideration, and adding more STS related topics.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.468-480
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• 2004

우리 나라 교육과정은 총론과 각론이 괴리되고 있다는 비판을 받고 있다. 총론과 각론의 괴리가 나타나는 주요 이유는 총론 연구개발팀이 순수 교육학 전공자 중심으로 구성되어 각론의 특성을 반영한 총론 및 교과 교육과정 개발 지침 개발, 개발된 각론의 검토 및 피드백 제공이 어렵고, 또한 교육과정 개발 기관이 사안 발생 때마다 임시로 지정되기 때문에 교육과정 개발을 대비하여 사전에 기초 연구를 하기 어려우며, 교육과정 개발 기간도 지나치게 짧아 각론팀에서 총론의 취지와 교사의 요구를 충분히 반영하기 어렵기 때문이다. 그 결과 (1) 제7차 교육과정의 주요 변화 내용인 심화 보충형 수준별 교육과정 적용 시기에서 총론과 각론의 불일치 현상이 나타나고, (2) 심화 과정의 성격, 지도 및 평가 등에 대해 명확한 설명이 없어 교과서 집필 및 학습 지도에서 혼선이 유발되고, (3) 교과서 집필자나 교사가 교육 내용의 범위나 수준을 파악하기 어려워 학습량 적정화의 취지가 제대로 구현되지 못하였다. 따라서 '교육과정개발센터'를 지정 운영하여 교육과정에 대한 상시 연구 체제를 구축하고, 총론연구팀과 각론연구팀의 유기적 협조체제를 구축하여야 한다. 또한 과학과 교육과정 연구 개발 기간을 최소한 2년 이상으로 하고, 교육과정 개발 과정에 주요 전공별 과학자를 포함시키는 것이 바람직하다. 그리고 교육과정은 교과서 집필자나 교사가 중요한 사항을 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 현행보다 구체화되어야 하며, 교육과정 해설서는 최소한 교과서 개발 시작 이전까지는 집필되어야 한다.