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Exploring the Possibility of Forming the Strategic Community of Practice for Science Education: A Case of Science Core Schools in Korea

과학교육을 위한 전략적 실행공동체의 형성 가능성 탐색 -과학중점학교를 중심으로-

  • Received : 2017.01.24
  • Accepted : 2017.02.22
  • Published : 2017.02.28
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Abstract

The aim of this study is to see school science education from the perspective of CoP (Community of Practice) and to explore the possibility of strategic CoP in Korean school settings. To do this, we conducted a survey using SCaCoP instrument with more than 1600 students from 14 science core schools (SCSs), which were selected across the country, and analyzed their school curriculum, which can be summarized as follows: First, compared to other tracks in SCSs, like the Nature and the Humanity Classes, students of the Science Core Class (SCC) showed significantly higher scores of CoP features for all five factors of SCaCoP (i.e. responsibility of learning, common interest, mutual relationship, open participation, and practice). Second, students of SCC considered activities that require interaction and collaboration among community members (like experiments, hands-on activities, club activities, project works, R&E) to be very positive. Third, SCC students thought that the educational activities of SCSs were not only effective to CoP aims (i.e. self-driven learning, sharing learning outcomes, peer collaboration) but also positive to general aims of science education (i.e. acquiring knowledge, understanding scientific concepts, science-related attitudes). In other words, it appears that educational activities that were effective in vitalizing the CoP have positive effects on ordinary science education, too. These features of SCSs illustrate its possibility of forming strategic COPs in the context of often government-driven Korean education and of bringing in the innovations of school science education.

본 연구는 학교 과학교육 현장을 실행공동체적 관점에서 살펴보고 학교 차원의 전략적 실행공동체의 형성 가능성을 탐색하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 전국의 14개 과학중점학교 학생 1600여명을 대상으로 SCaCoP 검사를 실시하여 과학교실 내의 실행공동체적 특징을 점검하고, 학교 교육과정의 과학교육활동 중 학생들에게 긍정적 영향을 미친 활동과 그 영향을 분석하였다. 연구결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 과학중점학교의 교육과정이 두드러지게 운영되는 과학중점과정은, 학교 내의 자연과정 및 인문과정에 비해, SCaCoP의 5개 모든 요인(학습책임감, 호혜적 인간관계, 개방적 참여, 실행, 공동의 관심사)에서 실행공동체적 특성이 높게 나타났다. 둘째, 과학중점과정 학생들은 긍정적으로 인식하는 활동으로 구성원간의 상호작용과 협력이 필수적인 공동체 활동인 '실험', '체험활동', '동아리', '과제연구', 'R&E' 등을 들었다. 셋째, 학생들은 과학중점학교의 활동이 '자기주도적 학습', '학습성과 공유', '동료와의 협력' 등에 긍정적이라고 인식할 뿐만 아니라 '교과 외 과학지식 습득', '교과 내 과학개념 이해', '과학 관련 태도 형성' 등 일반적인 과학교육의 목표들에 대해서도 긍정적이라고 응답하여 실행공동체를 활성화 하는 데 효과적인 교육활동들이 과학교육적 측면에서도 긍정적인 효과를 얻고 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 이러한 과학중점학교의 특징들은 우리나라의 학교 교육 맥락에서 전략적 실행공동체의 형성과 이를 통한 과학교육 혁신의 가능성을 잘 예시한다고 하겠다.

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