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Publication Date: 2019-Jul
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Students' Collaborative Decision-Making Processes in Defining and Classifying Quadrilaterals: A Semiotic/Dialogic Approach
Fujita, Taro; Doney, Jonathan; Wegerif, Rupert
Educational Studies in Mathematics, v101 n3 p341-356 Jul 2019
In this paper, we take a semiotic/dialogic approach to investigate how a group of UK 12-13-year-old students work with hierarchical defining and classifying quadrilaterals. Through qualitatively analysing students' decision-making processes, we found that the students' decision-making processes are interpreted as transforming their informal/personal semiotic representations of "parallelogram" (object) to more institutional ones. We also found that students' decision-making was influenced by their inability to see their peers' points of view dialogically, i.e., requiring a genuine inter-animation of different perspectives such that there is a dialogic switch, and individuals learn to see the problem "as if through eyes of another," in particular collectively shared definitions of geometrical shapes.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, Geometric Concepts, Secondary School Students, Classification, Definitions, Semiotics, Perspective Taking
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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