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| Type |
Symposium |
| Area |
Current Trends in Chemistry Education |
| Room No. |
Room 301 |
| Time |
FRI 09:30-: |
| Code |
EDU1-2 |
| Subject |
Overseas Voluntary Activities and Science Education |
| Authors |
JaeYoung Han*, Sungmin Im1
Department of Chemistry Education, Chungbuk Natioanl University, Korea
1Faculty of Science Education, Daegu University, Korea
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| Abstract |
Recently in Korea many science teachers have participated in overseas voluntary activities. Korea is the only nation that has changed into a donor country from a recipient country in the international aid. Many senior science educators could have seen the equipments of science experiment in the school laboratory that had come by the IBRD loan. Without doubt, the science education was one of the basic foundation of the development of Korea. I participated several overseas voluntary activities, and analyzed the activities with cultural historical activity theory (CHAT). The CHAT is the tool of analyzing any human activity system into six elements to find the structure of the activity and the conflicts in the activity. The six elements are subject, object, tools, community, rule, and division of labor. I compared the activity by in-service science teachers with the one by pre-service teachers. In doing so, I searched the implication of overseas voluntary activity on the science education. The science teachers could reconfirm the goal of science education as a basis of national development. Also the teachers could rethink the role of science experiment, as a tool of cognitive understanding or a method of motivation of science learning. The pre-service teachers could have a good chance of practicum where they can learn many things related to science teaching and learning. Overall, the overseas voluntary activities give science teachers the chance of reflection on their life as a science educator. (This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2015S1A5A2A03048047)) |
| E-mail |
jyhannn@chungbuk.ac.kr |
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120th General Meeting of the KCS