하브루타식 토론수업이 초등학생의 창의적 문제해결력 향상에 미치는 효과

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of the Havruta-style debate instruction, which has been attracting attention recently, has an effect on improving the creative problem solving ability of elementary school students. Two research problems were set up to achieve the purpose and were identified. First, is the Havruta-style debate instruction effective for improvement of creative problem solving ability of elementary school students? Second, is the Havruta-style debate instruction effective to improve fluency, flexibility, validity, originality and elaboration which are sub-variables of creative problem solving ability of elementary students? This study was conducted by selecting three ordinary fourth-grade classes of a K-Elementary school in Seoul. And they were selected as the experiment group, the control group, and the comparative group, respectively. In the experiment group, a Havruta-style debate program was conducted over 12 sessions for 4 weeks. And assigning the traditional explanation class as the control group, the general debate class as the comparative group. The pre-test and post-test were conducted using the ‘social studies Creative Problem Solving Ability questions’ developed by Lee Jongyeon et al.(2007) which verified by the in-service teachers and experts. The data was processed statistically with ANOVA using SPSS WIN 24.0 program was used. The results of this study were as follows; The experimental group that conducted the Havruta-style debate instruction had a significant higher score on the creative problem solving ability than the group who conducted the traditional explanation instruction or the general debate instruction. There were statistically significant differences in validity, originality, elaboration and flexibility except for fluency in the sub-variables. Based on these results, this study found that there was significant difference in the creative problem solving ability improvement depend on different teaching processes. Therefore, in order to improve creative problem solving ability in elementary school, it is necessary to study various teaching and debate methods.