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Read Longtime ArtSciLab Collaborator Dr. Eun Ah Lee's Recent Publication

  • Writer: Mahmoud Elkarmalawy
    Mahmoud Elkarmalawy
  • Jun 1, 2021
  • 2 min read

"Visual Representation Construction for Collective Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms" by: Hye-Gyoung Yoon, Mijung Kim, Eun Ah Lee


Abstract


There has been a recent increase in research interest in the ways that visual representation is used to facilitate students’ understanding in science classrooms. Yet while many studies have explored individual students’ drawing, few studies have looked into drawing as a collective tool to engage students in thinking and talking together in science classrooms. This study employed a case study approach to understand some of the possibilities for visual representation construction as a collective reasoning tool. By examining two cases of visual representation construction during classroom talk in two elementary science classrooms, this study demonstrates how teachers use visual representation as an instructional strategy, and how visualization engages students’ reasoning, meaning making, and social interactions. We selected two cases that demonstrate the emergence of the teacher’s and students’ drawing activities and analyzed each with a focus on the interactions that occur during the construction of visual representation and how this interaction promotes scientific reasoning and meaning making. For the case analysis, three researchers reviewed the video cases separately several times, and then collectively developed in-depth discussion to bring forth possible themes. The findings include (a) that there were common grounds of visual representation established for collective reasoning, and (b) that visual representations expanded knowledge and reasoning from the individual to social level, thus playing a critical role in students’ reasoning and knowledge building during classroom talk. Pedagogical questions and reflection are discussed for further research on visualization as a cognitive and social tool in classrooms.

 
 

Yoon H-G, Kim M, Lee EA. Visual Representation Construction for Collective Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms. Education Sciences. 2021; 11(5):246. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11050246

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