Abstract
The Socio-Scientific Issues (SSI) education is a process centered on controversial topics that reveal the social and ethical aspects of science, and aims to cultivate the knowledge as a citizen through the recognition and moral development of students. This study sought the possibility of using SSI education based on the agenda submitted by high school students who participated in the high school simulated assembly contest held by the Jeju Special Selfgoverning Council and the discussion data. The simulated council contest is held from the first convention in 2013 to the 6th convention in 2018, and a total of 132 agendas were submitted during this period. Among them, 40 SSI-related items accounted for 30% of the total, and a wide range of items such as the activation of electric vehicles for carbonfree islands, the protection of Jeju intertidal zone and the regulation of landfill of shared waterfront, the installation of companion animal crematoriums, and the ordinance on the acceptance of refugees in Jeju were submitted. In particular, 23 SSI-related issues were extracted from 2016 to 2018 in the last three years, and the argumentation activities on these agendas were analyzed through discourse elements and discourse cluster analysis framework focusing on how the argumentation activities in the SSI context unfolded. In the analysis of discourse elements, students were exchanging opinions on agenda through reasoning based on evidence in the structure of approval and opposition, and they were arguing in the direction of collecting opinions from each other and strengthening opinions so that agendas could be passed in a better direction. High school students’ argumentation about social issues related to science in the actual community is meaningful in that they have the experience of understanding the problems of the community themselves and deriving a plan for solving the problems. If the program related to the community is used more actively in connection with SSI education in the future, students will be able to directly experience the process of understanding various issues of the region and collecting opinions through discussions.
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