122nd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Chemistry Education
Room No. Grand Ballroom
Time 10월 18일 (목요일) 11:00~12:30
Code EDU.P-501
Subject A Case Study of Pre-service Secondary Science Teachers' Lessons Using Analogies
Authors Sunghoon Kim, Minhwan Kim, Taehee Noh*
Department of Chemistry Education, Seoul National University, Korea
Abstract In this case study, we investigated the lessons using analogies conducted by pre-service secondary science teachers. Four pre-service teachers at a college of education in Seoul participated in this study. During teaching practicum, they conducted lessons using analogies. All of the teaching-learning materials were collected, and their lessons were observed and videotaped. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted before and after their lessons. For the analyses, we used a revised framework from previous works which characterized the dimensions of teaching through analogies.
The analyses of the results revealed that the pre-service teachers used pre-planned analogies in most cases. When they used improvised analogies, however, they used analogies unsystematically. They also used analogies once in a lesson, and they thought using analogies repeatedly could make students confused. Although they used student-centered activities such as the role-playing analogy activity, they explained and analyzed analogies. They did not explicate mapping because they thought mapping was so obvious that students could understand mapping. Although they covered the differences between analogues and target concepts, they dismissed simple differences and placed much value upon fancy differences. There were some cases that they confused analogies with examples. Educational implications of these findings are discussed.
E-mail sunghoon93@snu.ac.kr