Publication details
Žákovská gestika ve vyučování jako proces zviditelňování myšlení
| Title in English | Pupils gestures in education as a process of making thinking visible |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia paedagogica |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | gestures; speech; explanatory talk; pupils; thinking |
| Description | This empirical study examines the capacity of pupils’ gestures to mediate information and make processes of pupils’ thinking visible. The study understands pupils’ gestures as the visual processing of information or as thinking made visible. Based on an analysis of pupils’ gestures recorded during sixteen lessons of Czech language and literature at lower secondary schools, the study shows that pupils’ gestures appear in classes in the form of explanatory talks which the pupils use to (re)construct the patterns of their thinking. However, pupils’ gestures can not only highlight ongoing cognitive processes, but they also reveal the individual steps that comprise pupils’ cognitive operations. The study therefore introduces pupils’ gestures as a tool for making cognitive processes – their presence, content and structure – visible. |
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