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Reflection on the Educator Mindset for Teaching Mathematics to Diverse Students in the Constructivist Elementary Classroom

  • Kim, Jinho;Lim, Woong
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.35-46
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    • 2018
  • In this perspective paper, we present seven elements of the appropriate educator mindset for teaching in the constructivist elementary mathematics classroom. The elements include supporting students as they construct their own understanding, eliminating deficit view of slow learners, setting new understanding and growth as the learning objective, providing opportunities to co-construct meaning with peers, using student contributions as the source of curricular material, encouraging all students to participate in learning, and providing instruction not bounded by time. In our struggles to provide authentic, inclusive elementary classrooms, we hope that our discussion of the educator mindset can increase discourse on constructivism from philosophy to practice in the community of mathematics education and policy makers.

Teaching and Learning Conceptions and Teacher Efficacy of Korean Preservice Teachers

  • Kwon, Na Young;Ryang, Dohyoung
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to examine changes in teaching and learning conceptions and sense of efficacy as well as relationships between them. Data were collected from 121 Korean preservice teachers before and after a 4-week teaching practicum. The results indicated that constructivist conceptions of teaching and learning increased over the practicum period and teacher efficacy shifted as well. In addition, correlations among the constructs were strengthened over the practicum period. Interestingly, constructivist conceptions related to differentiated education were not significant, while traditional conceptions related to teacher-guided lessons were significant after the practicum. These results imply that Korean preservice teachers still place value on the traditional perspective, even though constructivism dominates the current educational policies of Korea.

A Constructivist Approach to Understanding Russian's Public Diplomacy through Humanitarian Aid during COVID-19

  • Ignat, Vershinin
    • Journal of Public Diplomacy
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.1-26
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    • 2021
  • Applying discourse analysis of Russia's narrative on humanitarian aid and its perception by the Western collective identity at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study identifies several challenges that constructivism poses to the current understanding of public diplomacy (PD). In contrast to the mainstream positivist tendency to evaluate the effectiveness of PD through models, this article expands the PD narrative by inquiring about the role of power, intersubjective knowledge, and collective identities in public diplomacy. In particular, it examines the PD questions often ignored by researchers regarding how collective identities can exercise discursive power to interpret incoming narratives, which challenge domestic intersubjective knowledge. It also argues that, because the Russian political elite failed to ensure a coherent story and provide informational support for its humanitarian aid, the Western intersubjective knowledge on Russia negatively contributed to the perception of PD narratives. Thus, the article underscores the importance for PD practitioners to understand how the socially constructed nature of knowledge can improve or harm PD strategies.

Understanding of programming thinking from Semiotics Perspective (기호학적 관점에서 프로그래밍 사고의 이해)

  • Kim, Dong Man;Lee, Tae Wuk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2020.01a
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    • pp.275-276
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    • 2020
  • 이 연구의 목적은 기호학적 관점에서 프로그래밍에서 발생하는 학습자의 사고 과정을 이해하기 위함이다. 그래서 프로그래밍의 표상과정을 이해하기 위한 기호작용 모형을 제안하였다. 이 연구의 결론은, 프로그래밍 교육에서 구성주의(constructivism) 학습 이론을 적용하기 위해서는 개인의 해석체와 프로그래밍 요소에서 인터텍스트(intertext) 속성을 파악하는 것이 선결과제인 것과 프로그래밍 맥락인 콘텍스트(context)의 중요함을 확인하였다. 후속 연구로 인지언어학적 방법으로 학습자가 프로그래밍에서 표상한 해석체(interpretant)와 콘텍스트(context), 인터텍스트(intertext) 등의 상호작용을 구체적으로 알아보는 연구를 진행하고자 한다.

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역사발생적 원리의 비판적 수용에 대하여

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    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.109-114
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    • 2002
  • By showing that several evidences from the history of mathematics do not follows the naturalness emerging in human being, the teaming principles of history of mathematics oriented teaming should be replaced both theoretically and practically by the principle of teaming from constructivism.

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Analysis of Elementary Mathematics Teaching Material Using Storytelling Based on the Perspective of Constructivism (구성주의 관점에서 스토리텔링을 활용한 초등 수학 수업 자료 분석)

  • Lee, Sumin;Kim, Jinho
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.205-230
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    • 2014
  • New teaching and learning theory on various aspects about class is needed to implement education which reflects constructivism, ideally. For an ideal learner-centered mathematics class, tangible and intangible elements related to education(view of knowledge, view of leaner, teacher's role, evaluation, the form of class, learning, teaching material, etc.) should be integrated from a constructive perspective and especially, teaching material has to be premised on that learners have intellectual abilities to construct knowledge themselves, and reflect integrity of knowledge, diversity and others, and contain open attributes. In addition to this, teaching material should have characteristics different from those when objective epistemology applies, so there is a need to analyze whether teaching material has those characteristics. For this, this study compared and analyzed <1. Three-Digit Numbers> which belongs to the domain of numbers and operations out of the units of mathematics(3) textbook of the 2009 revised curriculum for the first and second grade that first introduced story-telling, and <3. Understanding of Place Values> for the second grade of constructive math class used in the U.S.

Analysis of the Spatial Structure of Zaha Hadid's Museum using Space Syntax (공간구문론을 이용한 자하 하디드 뮤지엄 건축의 공간구조 분석)

  • Kook, Jin-Sun;Cho, Ja-Yeon
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.311-319
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    • 2013
  • Buildings of the de-constructive tendency beyond definite forms are being constructed in countries with economic power, technical skills and open culture because they require social conditions to accommodate those buildings as well as a lot of construction expenses. Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid can be chosen as the representative architects of de-constructivism series who are currently working hard. Though both of them are architects belonging to the de-constructivism category, their works show different construction due to the differences in architectural philosophy and working ways. Gehry consider Architect as a fine art and enjoy (sculpture) three-dimensional structure work through Rough Model. With increasing demand for landmark atypical buildings, Hadid has been frequently awarded in the recent series of International Competitions and deals with a lot of cultural works. Affected by absolutism, Hadid showed various diagonal lines in her early construction and works based on the theme of dynamics such as lightness, gliding and light contact with the ground etc. Hadid's Architecture which worked under the theme of dynamic contains a variety of diagonal lines that might cause the viewers to have difficulty on spatial awareness, thus It is known that Hadid's Architecture has lower efficiency on the Circulation and difficulty on spatial cognition compared to the typical museum. According to the research findings of the previous paper that space understanding of viewers on Frank Gehry Museum consisting of complicated planes is generally better than that of them on a typical museum, the purpose of this study is to find out the Circulation efficiency and spatial cognition of Hadid Museum by explaining the space structure of dynamic Hadid Museum and the difference compared to typical museum.

A Study on the Construction of Mathematical Knowledge (수학적 지식의 구성에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Jeong-Ho;Nam, Jin-Young
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to uncover weaknesses in the constructivism in mathematics education and to search for ways to complement these deficiencies. We contemplate the relationship between the capability of construction and the performance of it, with the view of the 'Twofold-Structure of Mind.' From this, it is claimed that the construction of mathematical knowledge should be to experience and reveal the upper layer of Mind, the Reality. Based on the examination on the conflict and relation between the structuralism and the constructivism, with reference to the 'theory of principle' and the 'theory of material force' in Neo-Confucianist theory, it is asserted that the construction of mathematical knowledge must be the construction of the structure of mathematical knowledge. To comprehend the processes involved in the construction of the structure of mathematical knowledge, the epistemology of Michael Polanyi is studied. And also, the theory of mathematization, the historico-genetic principle, and the theory on the levels of mathematical thinking are reinterpreted. Finally, on the basis of the theory of twofold-structure, the roles and attitudes of teachers and students are discussed.

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