Tutoring conjunctions and construction of geometry concepts in the early childhood education: The case of the angle |
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| Authors: | Niki Filippaki Yannis Papamichael |
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| Institution: | 1. Dpt. of Sciences of Education, University of Provence, 29, avenue Robert Schuman, 13621, Aix-en-Provence, France
2. Dpt. of Sciences of Education, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology of Education, University of Patras, Rion, 26500, Patras, Greece
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| Abstract: | Recent research concerning the understanding of geometrical concepts, such as the concept of angles, shows that children of pre-school age, as far as it concerns problems of angle comparison, systematically focus on visual comparative procedures. We suggest, however, that social interaction of a child having the role of tutor in diverse guided environments, could allow the building of this concept in the nursery school on strategies that have formed in natural settings. Sixty-four (64) subjects were accessed according to their performance in a test of angle comparison. They were introduced for an equal period to two experimental guidance conditions. In the first condition, the code of guidance is exclusively verbal and, in the second, the symbolic code of the Logo environment suceeds the verbal communication. Results show, on one hand, much more systematic improvement in a subjects performance where different contexts of guidance were used. On the other hand, in the verbal guidance experimental condition, children’s correct answers showed a dinstinct progress to the stage of finally advancing their performance. |
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