The purpose of this study was to investigate students` and teachers` views on the necessity of learning science in Korea. To grade sixth students(n=565) and teachers(n=57) of elementary schools in Seoul, Korea, a question, Why do we have to learn scie...
The purpose of this study was to investigate students` and teachers` views on the necessity of learning science in Korea. To grade sixth students(n=565) and teachers(n=57) of elementary schools in Seoul, Korea, a question, Why do we have to learn science?, requiring a short essay of more than 7 lines including the reason and examples was given. From the analysis of short essays with the network analysis, it was found that most students and teachers had views of we have to learn science to make personal everyday-life easy in aspect of personal usefulness and human everyday-life easy in aspect of social usefulness with focusing on external value of science and taking examples of everyday-life related. And it was found that students` and teachers` views were somewhat biased toward focusing on external values of science.