Visuospatial Reasoning - Owens, Kay

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Résumé :
This book develops the theoretical perspective on visuospatial reasoning in ecocultural contexts, granting insights on how the language, gestures, and representations of different cultures reflect visuospatial reasoning in context. ? For a number of years, two themes in the field of mathematics education have run parallel with each other with only a passing acquaintance. ?These two areas are the psychological perspective on visuospatial reasoning and ecocultural perspectives on mathematics education. ?This volume examines both areas of research and explores the intersection of these powerful ideas. ? In addition, there has been a growing interest in sociocultural aspects of education and in particular that of Indigenous education in the field of mathematics education. ?There has not, however, been a sound analysis of how environmental and cultural contexts impact visuospatial reasoning, although it was noted as far back as the 1980s when Alan Bishop developed his duality of visual processing and interpreting visual information. ?This book provides this analysis and in so doing not only articulates new and worthwhile lines of research, but also uncovers and makes real a variety of useful professional approaches in teaching school mathematics. ?With a renewed interest in visuospatial reasoning in the mathematics education community, this volume is extremely timely and adds significantly to current literature on the topic.

Biographie:
Patricia Paraide is an associate professor in Education Research at Divine Word University. She received her PhD at Deakin University in 2009. She has published a number of papers on education in Papua New Guinea, including mathematics education, and has presented at several conferences internationally. Her expertise and interests include language and linguistics, literacy across the lifespan, and education and indigenous knowledge. Kay Owens began her teaching career as a mathematics and health education secondary teacher in Australia before moving to Papua New Guinea for 15 years with her partner Chris Owens. She taught mathematics at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology and taught, as Head of Department, health education and education at Balob Teachers College. On returning to Australia, she taught mathematics education at the now Western Sydney University for 15 years before moving to be with family in Dubbo to Charles Sturt University for 14 years. She was Vice-President (Publications) for the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia and held numerous positions in State and regional professional groups. She is a 35 year Member of Australian College of Educators following her work in PNG, and assists with mathematics and environmental associations. During her years in Australia she has continued to work with Papua New Guinea colleagues in joint research projects on ecocultural mathematics and mathematics education. She has numerous published papers and two of her books focus on Papua New Guine?Visuospatial Reasoning: An Ecocultural Perspective for Space, Geometry and Measurement Education and History of Number: Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Oceania. Before joining Australian Catholic University, Emeritus Professor Philip Clarkson for nearly five years was Director of a Research Centre at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. During this time, he carried out research into language and mathematics education and is well known internationally for this work...

Sommaire:

Introduction: Visuospatial reasoning in context.- Visuospatial reasoning in 20th century psychology-based studies.- Changing Perspective: sociocultural elaboration.- Place, culture, language, and visuospatial reasoning.- Visuospatial reasoning in cultural activities in Papua New Guinea.- Visuospatial reasoning in other cultures.- The impact of an ecocultural perspective of visuospatial reasoning on mathematics education.- The importance of an ecocultural perspective for Indigenous and transcultural education.- Visuospatial reasoning in contexts with digital technology.- An ecocultural perspective on visuospatial reasoning in geometry and measurement education.- Appendices.- Index.- References.