An Alternative Path of Embodying Geometrical Concepts: Student Gestures

Autor/inn/en	Akcakoca, Tuba; Yazgan-Sag, Gonul; Argun, Ziya
Titel	An Alternative Path of Embodying Geometrical Concepts: Student Gestures
Quelle	In: Pedagogical Research, 8 (2023) 2, (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Akcakoca, Tuba) ORCID (Yazgan-Sag, Gonul) ORCID (Argun, Ziya)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2468-1989
Schlagwörter	Geometric Concepts; Nonverbal Communication; Grade 11; High School Students; Mathematics Instruction; Foreign Countries; Cognitive Processes; Secondary School Mathematics; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementare Geometrie; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Ausland; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Türkei
Abstract	This study aims to reveal how the embodied cognition of certain geometrical concepts of secondary-school students arises via gestures and what kinds of gestures they produce while engaging with different concepts. The study participants comprised four eleventh-grade students studying at a state high school in Turkey. The study focused on the gestures of students related to angle, a measure of an angle, congruence-similarity, and translation. Data were gathered via video-recorded focus group discussions and individual interviews, and the cognition of the students for each concept was coded using content analysis. According to the research findings, it was found that the deictic gestures of the participants reflect the grounding of cognition in the physical environment; representational gestures manifest mental simulations of action and perception, and some metaphoric gestures reflect body-based conceptual metaphors. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01