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How Does Science Education Research Respond to Sociopolitical Change? A BERTopic Analysis of Korean Research — arXiv:2608.26675

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@misc{dccefdc8d2f381,
  title = {How Does Science Education Research Respond to Sociopolitical Change? A BERTopic Analysis of Korean Research — arXiv:2608.26675},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26675},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_cefdc8d2f381; sha256 c526f3c8a4c8e47e9a9c7cba18eb4a837685726f7860e23421d7e2c4f27d9a21},
  year = {2026}
}

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Research fields do not evolve in isolation: their questions and priorities shift with policy, curriculum reform, and broader social change. Analyzing published literature can reveal not only how a field matures but also how it responds to these conditions. Prior work in science education has focused on identifying research topics and their trends, but paid less attention to the external conditions in which research is produced. We examine Korean science education research from 2008 to 2025, a case in which centralized curriculum revision, government education initiatives, and demographic decline are prominent. Using BERTopic, an embedding-based topic modeling technique, we identify major topics and temporal trends, and analyze their associations with selected sociopolitical factors. We interpret each topic and distinguish three groups: sociopolitical, subject-specific, and student-related topics. Within the first group, science teacher professionalism and curriculum implementation, science education for gifted students, and STEAM education show the strongest associations with sociopolitical conditions, such as government policy initiatives and declining enrollment in science-gifted education, whereas digital-based science education does not. The subject-specific and student-related groups, by contrast, show no comparable movement and are not linked to the external indicators we examine; this pattern is interpreted as reflecting stronger disciplinary grounding. Taken together, these patterns suggest that a topic's anchoring to policy and practice or to academic disciplines shapes how closely it tracks external change. This helps explain why some research agendas move with their national context while others hold steady, and why the same topic may develop differently across countries.

Tema degli esploratori: governance digitale e beni comuni (retro-catalogo arXiv: annunci del 2026-08-28 in cs.CY).
Categorie arXiv: Computers and Society (cs.CY).
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