창의력 계발을 위한 초등학교 교사의 과학수업환경 조사 = An Investigation on the Teacher's Teaching Environment for Developing Student's Creativity in Elementary School

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to survey the teacher's recognition of science teaching environment for developing student's creativity in elementary schoo. For this purpose, we asked some questions to elementary school teachers: 20 item-questionnaire was given to 380 teachers who work in the region of Gyeonggi province. The queries which composed of 20 questionaries with two main factors- such as psychological and physical circumstances and each main factor composed of 10 subfactors. The results of the study are as follows: In the psychological environments, most of teachers are positive recognition on the subfactors such as the conditions of teaching, liberty of experiment, self-reliance and confidence building, curiosity inducements, but are negative on the cooperation, creative work, teachers' induction of interests, and scientific attitude in science class. In the physical environment, most of teachers have negative recognition such as free use of experimental materials, free reporting, scientific environment, free movement of position, improvement of the institutionalization, employment of multi-media system, breeding and culturing of living organisms, which means that the improved educational environment is needed for children to use it freely. On the other hand, most of the administrative group (92.1% of teachers) are acceptive in all the factors of educational environment, such as, for example, psychological and physical environment could be designated that the importance of educational environment have been recognized. With these results seemed to indicate that nearly all of teachers recognize the importance of the educational environment of science class, struggle for improving the educational environment of science class which closely related with the improvement of children's creativity.