My interest in Education is development of human being. I also believe that social interaction is important of human being to develop. Negotiating with others, and understanding other values of human being will boost the development of human. I want to learn more about social cultural theory and Vygotskian theory to understand humans in development. Vygotsky mentions many factors about development through being social and interacting with others. I believe human being social is important in education. Not only in classrooms but education can emerge anywhere we live. The society, community gives us different perspectives and different ways to engage with other people, and I think this is where education can be seen. Learning how to engage in activities, representing our identities, negotiating with other people, and living as member of the society. Especially when our school has a strong-based faculty member in SCT I think I could benefit in building my own theory. Such as James Lantolf, Steve Thorne, Celeste Kinginger. Since my interest on theory, focuses on Vygotsky, Penn State faculty members will give the insight of what I want to know. Also, interest in interaction leads me to discourse analysis. Analyzing the interaction between people will give better understanding of human and the process of development.
        Coming down with understanding the theory and analyzing discourse, I’d like to study how media, technology, and video games can effect human beings development by using the SCT and Vygotskian theory. This is not only restricted to classroom development but can be extended to an understanding of student’s value system and literacy. The items (media, technology, games) can be something more than using as tools for classrooms. Understanding, each of these items and analyzing the result of discourse can help to improve the classroom and education development. The study I’m interested in is not limited for classroom development; teacher education, school improvement, educational policy can be discussed. Teachers can know how these items can be effective, and important to understand the students. Schools can support the students with these items and educate the importance to the parents for understanding of the usage. I want to show how these can be used differently and interoperate differently for better development in education. I think my department Curriculum and Instructions has the one of the best environment for this situation. The link to local high schools, and working as a consultant for interns, can help me to understand the high school systems. Courses such as teacher-inquiry, media literacy, etc can give me more insights to understand school development and literacy.
        During my education in Penn State, I wish to connect the SCT and media, technology, games together for school development. Making new materials, developing methods, models for class, improving language literacy is what I want to do, however, and language development would be the prior among others. Especially focusing on language schools, such as ICEP, where English language education is important.


이번에 캔디던시 페이퍼 쓰면서 내가 공부하고싶은것을 나열했습니다.
무엇보다도 가르치는 선생과 배울려는 학생보다는 학생의 관점에서 학생이 필요로한것이 무엇인가를 알아가는것이 중요하다고 생각이 드니까...
하지만 공부할수록 학생이 200명 300명이 넘어가면 어떻게해야할지..-_- 살짝 고민도 되기는하는데..
일단..-_- 하나만 집중하기로...?
공부를 하는것이 지식을 주입할려는 것인지 아니면 인간이란 동물을 이해할려고 하는것인지...
한비는 후자가 아닐까란 생각을 해본다. 배우고 자격증따서 좋긴하지만,
결국에 그것이 나에게 의미를 가져다 주지 않는다면 무엇하러 공부했을까란 생각도 해본다.
목적을 두고 공부하는것이 무엇인지, 학업의 성취라는 것이 좋은 회사 많은돈을 가르키는 것인지...
아니면 자가발전인지...
요새 학교선생님들도 이런 생각을 가지고 있으려나...

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