Use conceptual-analysis methods to develop or modify the conceptual structures learners seem to have in their heads¶

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Description¶

The book offers the method of conceptual analysis used in its model of units, plurality and number as a tool for educators. The author states that "the method of analysis could be useful to teachers, educators, and,more generally, anyone who is interested in developing or modifying the conceptualstructures that others seem to havein their heads." Chapter 10 translates this into teaching moves such as teaching rather than training, inferring students' thinking, helping rather than instructing, and fostering reflection.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Teachers must infer students' thinking rather than assume it, since conceptual structures are built by each learner

Constraints¶

• The author describes himself as feeling more of a foreigner in the field of education than in the other disciplines he discusses

Target Learners¶

• elementary-school children learning arithmetic; learners generally

Target Learning Goals¶

• development and modification of conceptual structures, including arithmetical concepts

Affordances¶

• Radical Constructivism Von Glasersfeld

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Key Sources¶

• von Glasersfeld, E. (1995). Radical Constructivism: A Way of Knowing and Learning. Falmer Press. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED381352