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An Understanding of the Performance of Teaching in a Science Museum: A Case Study Using the CHAT

교사의 과학관 학습 실행에 대한 이해: CHAT를 활용한 사례연구

  • Received : 2013.11.18
  • Accepted : 2013.12.30
  • Published : 2014.02.28
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Abstract

There are complex interactions between personal and contextual features in teaching in a science museum. In order to analyze two teachers' holding classes in a science museum, the CHAT (cultural historical activity theory) was used as an analysis tool in a case study. The analyses of the results revealed that both teachers had difficulties teaching in a science museum due to the contradictions among the factors of subject, rules, community, and division of labor in the activity system. Although both teachers had trouble with similar contradictions, there appeared to be different sets of internalization and externalization of such conflicts depending on the difference in the teacher's perceptions and experiences about teaching in a science museum, the passion and the motivation of the teachers. These suggested that efforts should be preceded to foster the activity system providing both emotional and social supports to teachers in order to activate teaching in a science museum. Taking a teacher training course on teaching in a science museum was also found to fail to function as mediating artifacts. The course should provide not only the experience of executing proper teaching strategies for teaching in a science museum and the feedback on their teaching, but also the guidance on how to lead to optimal expansion of the factors in the activity system.

교사의 과학관 학습 실행은 개인적 요소와 상황맥락적 요소들 간의 복잡한 상호작용을 바탕으로 이루어진다. 이에 CHAT를 분석 도구로 사용한 사례연구를 통해 두 교사의 과학관 학습 실행을 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 두 교사 모두 활동체계에서 주체 요소와 규칙, 공동체, 분업 요소들 간의 모순에 의해 과학관 학습 실행에 어려움을 겪는 것으로 나타났다. 두 교사는 유사한 모순에 의한 어려움을 겪었으나 과학관 학습 실행의 주체인 교사의 과학관 학습에 대한 인식이나 경험, 과학관 학습 실행에 대한 열정과 동기수준에 따라 갈등에 대한 내면화와 외면화의 양상에는 차이가 있었다. 이는 현장에서 과학관 학습의 활성화를 위해서는 교사가 과학관 학습 실행에 대한 정서적, 사회적 지원을 받을 수 있는 활동체계를 조성하기 위한 노력이 필요함을 시사한다. 한편, 도구요소인 과학관 학습에 대한 연수가 교사의 과학관 학습 실행을 중재하는 데 많은 한계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 과학관 학습 관련 연수에서는 학습한 교수전략을 실제로 적용해볼 수 있는 기회와 그에 대한 적절한 피드백을 제공하고, 교사들이 활동체계의 요소들을 과학관 학습 실행에 유리하게 확장하는 것을 도울 필요가 있을 것이다.

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