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Design for the Body in Mathematics Classrooms
dc.contributor.author | Wisittanawat, Panchompii | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-27T18:37:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-27T18:37:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/7120 | |
dc.description | Teaching and Learning Department Capstone Project | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I explore what it might mean to take the body as the focus of design to support learning in mathematics classrooms, and more specifically, to support learning to work with graphs. I will provide an overview of the literature on embodied cognition, as a genre of research that challenge or reject the traditional view of cognitive science. The difference between these two paradigms provides a context for understanding the current research interest in the role of the body in mathematics and also for understanding implications for learning. Then, I review some research focusing specifically on the role of the body in mathematics. The third section, I briefly discuss what learning to work with graphs entails. In the last section, I will take a leap, and look at a scientific practice, protein crystallography, that appears to have interesting elements of body-work. An ethnographic account of the laboratory and pedagogical work of protein crystallographers becomes an anchor for me to think about designing for the body in mathematics classroom as I think about future steps. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University. Peabody College | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Embodied Cognition | en_US |
dc.subject | Embodied Mathematics | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Mathematics -- Study and teaching | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Mathematics -- Philosophy | en_US |
dc.title | Design for the Body in Mathematics Classrooms | en_US |
dc.type | Paper | en_US |
dc.description.college | Peabody College of Education and Human Development | en_US |
dc.description.department | Department of Teaching and Learning | en_US |
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