메이커교육을 경험한 초등학생의 감정 탐색

Abstract

This study explores the emotions of elementary school students who participated in maker education. To this end, the photovoice research method was applied to a class of fourth-grade elementary school students who had undergone maker education. The specific research procedures proposed by Latz (2018) were followed, including eight steps—identification, invitation, education, documentation, narration, ideation, presentation, and confirmation. Data was collected through photos taken by students, photo-voice writing, and interviews and subsequently analyzed in three stages: coding, classification, and topic discovery.
 Data analysis revealed a wide range of emotions experienced by elementary school students, which include anticipation, tension, anger, fatigue, and satisfaction. Examining the meaning of each emotion in detail, anticipation is characterized as 'excitement about something unfamiliar', tension as 'vague fear of failure and injury', anger as 'internal attribution to injury or repeated failure', and fatigue as 'Encountering mental and physical limitations'. Furthermore, satisfaction emerged from the theme of 'the happiness that comes immediately after completing the work'.
 These findings not only serve a diagnostic purpose for an in-depth examination of the emotions experienced by elementary school students in maker education within everyday school spaces but also provide insights for its effective application to school education, particularly in the current scenario of growing global interest in maker education as an innovative educational method. The potential impacts of these findings are expected to extend to the realm of education policy formation.