| 초록 |
The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of elementary teachers about educational technology. Educational technology that is embodied at school was the form of 'systemic structure' whose components are complex and exert close mutual influence on one another, rather than of 'systemic assembly' that relationship of components were well controlled. A qualitative epistemological method was used to look into educational technology instead of existing empirical ones. Metaphor analysis was utilized among various qualitative research methods to find out what elementary teachers thought of educational technology. Six elementary teachers were asked to draw a picture to describe what came into their mind when they heard term of 'educational technology,' and they were interviewed in depth to check what their pictures meant. As a result, elementary teachers expressed their point of views about educational technology as 'a scientific, technical and systemized instrument to stir up the learning interest and joy of students,' 'an action to mechanically fit together every part of education(curriculum),' 'educational technology as a teaching and learning method,' and 'an integrated and overall system.' This finding seemed to have something to do with media theory, teaching and learning theory and system theory that have been used in educational technology. This study was expected to be significance in that it investigated the way of looking at educational technology in the field, and confirmed the close relationship between theory and practice, and finally provided an opportunity to reflect on the ontological nature and epistemological method of educational technology. |
