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Accumulation of experience in a vast number of cases: enactivism as a fit framework for the study of spatial reasoning in mathematics education

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Author
Francis, Krista
Khan, Steven
Davis, Brent
Accessioned
2016-08-29T15:44:33Z
Available
2016-08-29T15:44:33Z
Issued
2014-08
Subject
Enactivism
Sensorimotor Coordination
Spatial reasoning
Robotics
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journal article
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Abstract
As we witness a push toward studying spatial reasoning as a principal component of mathematical competency and instruction in the twenty first century, we argue that enactivism, with its strong and explicit foci on the coupling of organism and environment, action as cognition, and sensory motor coordination provides an inclusive, expansive, apt, and fit framework. We illustrate the fit of enactivism as a theory of learning with data from an ongoing research project involving teachers and elementary-aged children’s engagement in the design and assembly of motorized robots. We offer that spatial reasoning with its considerations of physical context, the dynamics of a body moving through space, sensorimotor coordination, and cognition, appears different from other conceptual competencies in mathematics. Specifically, we argue that learner engagements with diverse types of informationally ‘dense’ visuo-spatial interfaces (e.g., blueprints, programming icons, blocks, maps), as in the research study, afford some of the necessary experiences with/in a vast number of cases described by Varela et al. (1991) that enable the development of other mathematical competencies.
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Citation
Kahn, Steven et al. "Accumulation of experience in a vast number of cases: enactivism as a fit framework for the study of spatial reasoning in mathematics education." In ZDM Mathematics Education, August 2014.
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Werklund School of Education
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University of Calgary
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11858-014-0623-x
http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/35636
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http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51530
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