Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop an educational program to teach RFN contextually and explicitly in order to improve the chemistry teachers' awareness and the educational application of RFN, and to examine the educational effects of chemistry teachers by checking chemistry teachers’ perceptions and changes on perceptions of educational applications of RFN the of chemistry teachers for through the program. The educational program was developed based on contextual scientific history reading materials and experimental materials that explicitly reflected RFN were developed so that the educational application of RFN could be actually applied, using Shapin & Schaffer(1985)'s “Leviathan and the Air-Pump”. The developed educational program selected three in-service chemistry teachers and two pre-service chemistry teachers who are enrolled in the master's course of the College of Education in Chung-buk as research subjects, and were put into the 15-week course program. Through a preliminary questionnaire on the educational application of RFN, the research subjects' prior awareness of the RFN educational application was confirmed, and the developed reading materials and experimental materials were provided for discussion. After developing educational materials reflecting RFN, the post-recognition of RFN educational application was confirmed and compared with the pre-study and the perception in the developed teaching materials. As a result of the study, the research subjects improved their awareness about the financial system and professional activities in the 'socio-institutional aspect' category, scientific knowledge by discipline in the 'scientific knowledge' category, and the diversity of the inquiry process in the 'scientific method' category