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Study of Research Trends in Science Education Field for Early Childhood

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This study is for understanding research trend of science education for early childhood, analyzing 248 master’s and doctoral theses introduced from 2002 to 2011 for understanding and discussing quantitative trend, research subject, research object, research type, and data collecting method. The results are as follows. First, the number of thesis over science for children is continuously growing. Second, the subject is mainly about research over developmental psychology, but study over teaching and learning method and teacher education is also making progress. Third, when it comes to research object trend, most researches subject children, few researches subject parents. Forth, when it comes to research type trend, experimental study has great importance, and research for case study and culture technology holds far short importance. Examination is a data collection method with the highest frequency, and the number of using questionnaire method is decreasing.

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  1. Paichai University, South Korea

    Sung-Hee Moon & Chang-Ok Park

  2. Korea National University of Education, South Korea

    Donguk Cheong

  3. Jeju National University, South Korea

    Jungwon Cho

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  1. GVSA and University of Tasmania, 20 Virginia Court, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. GECAD and ISEP, 4099-002, Porto, Portugal

    Carlos Ramos

  3. Deakin University, 75 Pigdons Road,Waurn Ponds, 3216, VIC, Australia

    Jemal Abawajy

  4. University of Tasmania, Churchill Avenue, Sandy Bay, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Byeong-Ho Kang

  5. University of Warsaw & Infobright Inc, Poland

    Dominik Ślęzak

  6. The Ohio State University, 4198 Graves Hall 333 W. 10th Avenue Columbus, OH. 43210, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

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Moon, SH., Cheong, D., Park, CO., Cho, J. (2012). Study of Research Trends in Science Education Field for Early Childhood. In: Kim, Th., Ramos, C., Abawajy, J., Kang, BH., Ślęzak, D., Adeli, H. (eds) Computer Applications for Modeling, Simulation, and Automobile. MAS ASNT 2012 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 341. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35248-5_44

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