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Comparison of the Effects of Socioscientific Issues Instruction on Promoting College Students' Character and Values: Based on Idiocentrism and Allocentrism

과학관련 사회쟁점을 활용한 대학생 인성교육의 효과 -개인-집단중심성향에 따른 비교-

  • Received : 2017.03.22
  • Accepted : 2017.05.29
  • Published : 2017.06.30
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Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effects of socioscientific issues (SSI) instruction on promoting college students' character and values as citizens, and to compare the effects based on the psychological factor - idiocentrism and allocentrism. Thirty-one college students who enrolled in the SSI course participated in this study. The SSI course provided the students with opportunities to explore various aspects of five topics, to express and share their own opinions, and to identify reasonable alternatives. The students with distinct tendencies were classified into two groups (i.e. idiocentric and allocentric groups) based on the personal value orientation scores before the instruction, and they responded to the questionnaire to examine their character and values as citizens before and after the instruction. The results showed that the students' social and moral compassion and socioscientific accountability improved significantly after the SSI course. The overall effects of the SSI program on students' character and values were not significantly different between two groups. However, the post-mean score of the allocentric group in socioscientific accountability was higher than the one of the idiocentric group. This study shows that SSI instruction could positively affect character development regardless of psychological tendencies, and could be implemented in the science classroom as a good instructional approach to integrating science education and character education.

본 연구는 과학관련 사회쟁점(SSI)을 활용한 교육이 과학교과에서 가능한 인성교육의 하나의 방안이 될 수 있음에 근거하여 SSI 교육이 대학생의 인성과 가치관 함양에 미치는 영향을 탐색해보았다. 또한 시민으로서 갖추어야 할 인성이 개인적 성향을 나타내는 심리학적 구인과 관련 있음을 고려하여 개인-집단중심성향에 따른 SSI 교육효과의 차이를 비교해보았다. 본 연구는 SSI를 주제로 한 교양강의를 수강한 대학생 31명을 대상으로 하였으며, 수업은 학생들이 다섯 가지 주제에 대한 다양한 입장을 탐색한 후 자신의 의견을 표명하고 합리적인 대안을 마련하는 방식으로 이루어졌다. 개인주의-집단주의 검사지를 활용하여 성향이 뚜렷하게 구분되는 학생을 개인중심성향집단과 집단중심성향집단으로 구분하였으며, 수업 전후 과학과 관련된 인성 및 가치관 검사를 실시함으로써 SSI 교육이 인성과 가치관에 미치는 효과와 집단 간 인성과 가치관 향상의 차이를 탐색해보았다. 연구결과, 학생들은 전반적으로 SSI 수업 후 사회 도덕적 공감과 과학관련 사회쟁점에 대한 책무성이 유의하게 향상된 것으로 드러났다. 개인중심성향과 집단중심성향 두 집단 간 향상의 차이는 유의하지 않았으나, 집단중심성향은 개인중심성향에 비해 과학관련 사회쟁점에 대한 책무성의 사후 평균점수가 통계적으로 유의하게 높았다. 본 연구결과는 인성과 가치관 함양을 가로막는 역할을 할 수 있는 개개인의 성향의 영향력을 넘어 교육을 통해 인성함양에 긍정적인 영향을 줄 수 있다는 데 의의가 있으며, 과학교과에서 활용할 수 있는 SSI를 통한 인성교육이 그 방안이 될 수 있음을 보여준다.

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