JOURNAL ARTICLE

Pre-service Earth Science Teachers' Perceptions about Water Cycle

Jin‐Woo JeongYunji KimKusong Jeong

Year: 2007 Journal:   Journal of the Korean earth science society Vol: 28 (6)Pages: 699-706   Publisher: Korean Earth Science Society

Abstract

본 연구의 목적은 지구 시스템 과학을 학습하는 학생의 개념과 사고에 직접적인 영향을 미치게 될 지구과학 예비 교사들의 물 순환의 구성 요소와 순환 과정에 대한 인식을 밝히는 것이다. 국립사범대 지구과학교육학과에 재학 중인 지구과학 예비 교사 50명을 대상으로 개념 그리기 방법을 적용하여 물 순환의 구성요소로 응답한 개념들을 지구 시스템의 하위계인 수권, 기권, 암권, 생물권의 범주로 코딩하고, 물의 순환 과정으로 응답한 요소들로부터 지구 시스템 하위계의 상호작용에 대한 인식을 분석하였다. 예비 지구과학 교사들은 물 순환의 구성요소를 주로 수권과 기권에 한정하여 인식하고 있으며, 생물권에서 식물과 동물의 작용에 대한 인식이 매우 부족하고 특히 인간이 물의 순환에 미치는 영향에 대한 인식은 극히 드물었다. 물의 순환 과정에 대해서는 대부분의 예비 교사들이 증발과 강수만을 순환 과정으로 인식하고 있으며, 지표면의 이동에 비해 지하에서의 이동에 대한 인식이 부족하였다. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of pre-service teachers, which directly affect the concepts and ways of thinking of students who are studying Earth science. This work further seeks to identify pre-service Earth science teachers' Earth science-centered ways of thinking regarding the components and the process of water cycle. The concept sketch method was used to survey 50 pre-service teachers who majored in Earth science education at a National Teachers' University. The survey analyzed the preservice teachers' perceptions of a subordinate concept of Earth systems from the applied components of water cycle, and to code the applied concepts with the components of the water cycle based on a subordinate concept of Earth systems including Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Geosphere, and Biosphere. The preservice teachers only perceived the components of the water cycle as ones in Hydrosphere and Atmosphere. In Biosphere, many participants lack the knowledge about how the actions of plants and animals, and human beings impact the water cycle. About the process of water cycle, the majority of the participants only perceived evaporation and precipitation as the process of cycling: their understanding about the underground flow of water was more lacking than the surface flow.

Keywords:
Hydrosphere Water cycle Biosphere Atmosphere (unit) Learning cycle Earth system science Earth science Perception Process (computing) Mathematics education Psychology Geography Meteorology Ecology Computer science Geology

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