Ethno-method로서의 학습경험에 관한 이해

Abstract

This paper attempted to understand how “big idea” or “permanent understanding” works, one of the recent interests of the curriculum, through Ethnomethology (EM). If the so-called big idea or permanent understanding is the most general and comprehensive level of generalization that remains even if all factual knowledge is forgotten, we tried to see how it works in practices, whether in the context of learning or daily activities and experiences. EM’s core concern is to understand how everyday actions and practical reasoning work, whether they are ordinary people, professionals, newcomers, seniors, people in physical labor, people in conceptual/abstract knowledge labor, students learning conceptual knowledge or teachers.
 EM is not unfamiliar in educational research. EM’s research direction has already triggered situational cognitive and social constructivist learning theories and research in 1980s. Since the 2000s, it has inspired an empirical study called “Learning Science”, which is away from the normative science of existing learning theory. This is an explanation of how learning experience research through systematic study of thinking as an interaction with the outside world, not as an inference about the structure of knowledge. The goal of these studies is to improve the understanding of the learner’s context and the understanding of competency and designing the conditions to improve that learning. This study saw that EM had implications for research on learning experience, and tried to explore the applicability of EM in learning experience research.