• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.9-20
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• 2003

이 연구는 초등학생들이 가지고 있는 자연에 대한 관점을 알아보고자 수행되었다. 초등학교 5, 6학년 18명의 학생이 연구에 참여하였고, 일련의 정교화된 도구들을 이용한 반구조화된 면담을 통해 학생들의 자연에 대한 관점을 도출하였다. 연구 결과, 학생들의 자연에 대한 관점은 공통적인 특징을 보이기도 하지만, 각기 다른 관점을 가지고 있었다. 또한 종교, 심미적인 측면, 과학, 사회 등 여러 가지 요인이 자연에 대한 과점 형성에 관련되어 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 과학교육과정을 구성할 때, 과학교육자들이 학생들의 자연에 대한 다양한 관점을 이해하는 것이 필요하다고 본다. 또한 과학교육과정과 다른 교과의 교육과정과의 관계도 고려될 필요가 있다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.104-115
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• 1995

Teachers' conception about the nature of science is considered to be an important factor to improve the students' conceptions of that. It is assumed that teachers' conception of the nature of science may be influenced by their views of learning. The first purpose of this study was to investigate the exploratory relationships between teachers' conceptions about the nature of science and their views of learning. The second one was to compare the their conceptions and views of learning before and after science education lectures during 1 semester. We administered the questionnaires for the nature of science and for constructivist's learning, respectively, consisted of 5 dimensions (relativism-positivism; inductivism- deductivism; decontextualism-contextualism; content-process; instrumentalism-realism) and of 6 aspects (student; learning; instruction; teacher; curriculum; evaluations) were administered to 57 pre-service elementary teachers (female=44; male=13) before and after lectures. In pre-test it was revealed that respondents had not the consistent conceptions about the nature of science. The conception of relativism was more dominant than those of positivism, deductivism than inductivism, decontextualism than contextualism, process than content and instrumentalism than realism. They had more constructivist views in the respect of process of learning than in other respects, that is, students, instruction, teacher, curriculum and evaluation. But no significant correlations between the dimensions of the nature of science and the aspects of the views of learning suggest that constructivst views of learning was not deeply related with their conceptions of the nature of science. In post-test we had similar results with those of the pre-test, but the process-content dimensions of the nature of science was correlated with the constuctivist views of learning. Therefore we concluded that elementary pre-service teachers had the constructivist views of learning which was isolated with their conceptions of the nature of science although they had science educations course. We need to develop the course to make the conceptions of the nature of science relate view of learning.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1158-1172
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• 2004

이 연구는 중등학생들이 가지고 있는 자연에 대한 관점중 인식론적 관점과 존재론적 관점과 그러한 관점의 원인을 알아보고자 하였다. 156명의 중등학생들이 참여했고, 자료는 설문지를 통해 수집되었다. 이 설문지는 선행연구에 기초하여 연구자들에 의해 개발되었다. 연구 결과, 중등학생들의 자연에 대한 관점 중에는 자연은 알 수 없다는 인식론적 관점이 가장 많았다. 이러한 관점의 근원은 자연의 규칙성과 조화, 예측 가능한 자연 현상, 자연 현상의 순환 과정이나 인과 관계, 자연과 인간과의 관계 등으로 매우 다양하였다. 중등학생들의 존재론적 관점에는 초자연적인 관점이 가장 많았다. 존재론적 관점들 중에서 학생들의 초자연적 관점은 그들의 신학적 측면의 영향이 광범위하게 나타났다. 과학이 다루는 세상이면서 동시에 과학의 대상물이 존재하는 물질세계인 자연에 대한 인식론적 관점과 존재론적 관점은 학습자가 과학 학습을 어떻게 이해하는지에 대한 바탕을 제공하는 중요한 자료가 된다. 앞으로 학생들이 가지고 있는 자연에 대한 인식론적 관점과 존재론적 관점과 그들의 과학 학습 과정 사이의 관련성의 연구가 필요하다.

• 영재교육연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.511-530
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• 2011

이 연구에서는 과학영재들이 과학개념을 잘 이해하는 데 필요한 과학의 본성과 과학탐구 관점의 인식률 위치를 파악하고자 하였다. 내용타당도 지수 97.0%, 신뢰도 지수 0.86인 총 19문항으로 구성된 과학의 본성과 과학탐구 관점 검사지를 40명의 과학영재집단과 35명의 일반학생집단에 투입하여 비교 분석하였다. 과학의 본성 관점에 대한 과학영재집단의 인식률은 세부 논의 관점에 따라 다르나 20.0~97.5% 범위에 위치하고 있으며, 평균은 67.0%(일반학생 집단 50.0%)였으며, 특히 '과학자들의 의견이 다를 수 있다'는 하위 관점의 인식률은 여성과학영재가 높았다. 과학탐구 관점에 대한 과학영재집단의 인식률은 세부 논의 관점에 따라 다르나 27.5~77.5% 범위에 위치하고 있으며, 평균은 53.0%(일반학생집단 41.8%) 이었으며, 하위 요소 '과학자들이 연구하는 방법'에 대한 인식률은 여성과학영재가 높았다. 과학영재들 중에서 과학의 본성 관점을 잘 못 인식하고 있는 비율은 33.0%였고, 과학탐구 관점을 잘 못 인식하고 있는 비율은 47.0%였다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.243-251
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between elementary school teachers' points of view about the organization of the science curriculum and their views on the nature of science (NOS). We surveyed 132 elementary school teachers' view points about these two kinds of views, analyzed the data by their variables, and compared the two viewpoints with their personal details. The elementary school teachers thought the science curriculum should be emphasized through the process more than contents. They thought the contents of the science curriculum should be integrated rather than separated. As teachers' career progressed, they focused on the contents more than the process. On the other hands, because elementary school teachers showed the NOS views as relativism, deductivism, decontextualism, content, and instrumentalism, when we plotted sub-viewpoints of NOS in process-content dimension, we thought it would be similar distributions with point of views on the organization of science curriculum. However, there was no meaningful relation. This showed that teachers' views on the organization of the curriculum and the NOS are totally different. These findings suggest further research is needed to find how factors influence elementary school teachers' views on the organization of the science curriculum and what inclinations can occur in science classes with their different views.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.430-441
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• 2011

We investigated the elementary students' epistemological views on the nature of scientific measurement. The Views About Scientific Measurement (Ibrahim, 2005) was administered to 117 sixth graders. The analyses of the results indicated that there was an inconsistency in their epistemological views depending on the contexts of the measurement. They also had some difficulties in understanding a distribution of the data, which is needed to understand the necessity of repeating measurements, choosing a best representative value, and comparing data sets. They were found to have some naive views on scientific measurement which influenced negatively for fostering modern epistemological views on the nature of scientific measurement. The results suggest that the nature of scientific measurement should be emphasized explicitly in the national curriculum, and an effective method which improves elementary students' epistemological views on the nature of scientific measurement also be developed.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.257-272
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• 2014

This paper examines and presents descriptions of 12 prospective primary teachers' views on the nature of mathematics in USA. All the participants were elementary teacher candidates enrolled in the same mathematics method courses. Interview data show that the prospective primary teachers possess two kinds of views on the nature of mathematics: primarily traditional and even mix of traditional and nontraditional beliefs in terms of Raymond's (1997) belief criteria. Implications for teacher education were discussed at the end of the paper.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제24권5호특별호
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• pp.558-570
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• 2005

The importance of teaching the nature of science (NOS) has been always emphasized in science education. However, the NOS is hardly taught in elementary science class. We are lacking in the strategies and materials for teaching NOS. So we designed the science drama teaching, and investigated the effects on pupils' perceptions about NOS. The subjects of this study were 185 third graders from a elementary school. The treatment group was provided with science drama lessons and the control group was provided with traditional lecture-type lessons. Their perceptions about NOS were investigated before/after the science lessons and after 3 months following them, and both of two groups were compared. The pretest results revealed that the pupils of both groups were found to have similar views on NOS. Dey had traditional views of the most items except for social construction of theories, mathematical knowledge and decision-making. After science lessons, they tended to change their views toward modem views, but the pupils of the treatment group showed more modem views than those of the control group on the observation, model, social construction of theories, predictions. After 3 months, the pupils of the control group tended to come back to their traditional views, but those of the treatment group showed tendencies that their changed views were kept up on the observation, scientific model, scientific knowledge, scientific methods, decision-making, social construction of theories, mathematical knowledge. Therefore this study suggests that science drama teaching could be one of the effective ways for teaching NOS.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.169-179
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• 2007

이 연구에서는 가설 연역적 탐구 실험이 학생들의 과학의 본성에 대한 관점 변화에 미치는 효과를 조사하였으며, 그 효과는 학습 전략에 따라 분석되었다. 연구 대상은 중학교 2학년 학생 212명이며 학생들은 실험집단과 통제집단으로 무선 배치되었다. 통제집단의 학생들은 안내된 탐구 실힘을 실시하였으며, 실험집단의 학생들은 가설 연역적 탐구 실험을 실시하였다. 연구 결과 사전 검사에서 실험 집단과 통제 집단은 과학의 본성에 대한 관점이 거의 비슷하게 나타났다. 수업을 실시한 후 실험 집단은 과학의 본성 중에서 관찰의 이론 의존성, 과학적 추론, 가설에 대한 관점이 유의미하게 변화되었다. 실험집단 중에서 피상적 전략을 주로 사용하는 학생들은 과학의 본성 중에서 가설에 대한 관점만이 유의미하게 변화되었다. 반면, 실험집단 중에서 심층적 전략을 주로 사용하는 학생들은 과학의 본성 중에서 관찰의 이론의존성, 과학적 추론, 가설에 대한 관점이 유의미하게 변화되었다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.553-568
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• 2013

Although many researchers and science educators agree that understanding of the nature of science is essential in order for students to be a scientific literate person, it is not easy to compromise exactly what kind of understanding of the nature of science is required to achieve this goal (Smith & Scharmann, 1999). This study discusses a theoretical background about the nature of science (NOS) including some consensus views of the NOS that several important U.S. educational reform documents and science researchers have presented over the past several decades. Finally, this study proposes an inclusive framework of the nature of science based on the four categories of scientific literacy, which are (1) science as a body of knowledge, (2) science as a way of investigating, (3) science as a way of thinking, and (4) the interaction of science, technology, and society. Each category of the framework includes several statements about the nature of science to describe each theme of the NOS. This framework is comprehensive and inclusive because it is suggested by examining several major U.S. national-level documents and in the publications of science education researchers presented about the nature of science. Significantly, many of the key ideas were added into category (4) and category (3), which indicates that the current literature stresses the relationship among science, technology, and society as well as the work of scientists.