Open AccessTEACHERS’ OPINIONS ON THE CONCEPT OF REPRESENTATION AND PREDICTORS FAVOURABLE TO THE CREATION OF REPRESENTATIONS IN PUPILS
Author(s) -
Daniela Pahome
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
romanian review of geographical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2285-939X
DOI - 10.23741/rrge120212
Subject(s) - premise , representation (politics) , economic shortage , quality (philosophy) , mathematics education , field (mathematics) , mental representation , psychology , intellect , relation (database) , cognition , pedagogy , computer science , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , linguistics , database , neuroscience , government (linguistics) , politics , political science , pure mathematics , law
International research in the field of education focuses on the approach and use of mental knowledge-related mechanisms. In the educational research in Romania, we see the absence of studies focused on revision, analysis, and summary of the literature on the concept of representation and a shortage of studies tackling issues concerning creation of quality representations in primary school pupils. The aim of the study is to analyse teachers’ opinions on nine different themes of interest in the lexical field of representation, explored throughout three standard interviews. The interviewees are teaching staff, a professor and two pre-university teachers. The data collected are presented in tables and analysed by manual codification. The results are significant in relation to the theoretical substantiation. The main conclusion of the study is: representations constitute a premise for the optimal functioning of the intellect. Some predictors favourable to creation of quality representations in pupils are t he use of previous cognitive experiences, the accessibility and monitoring of learning as well as the quality of educational aids. By using suitable didactic resources, which reproduce the reality in a simplified manner or bring about elaborated abstractions, the teacher facilitates learning.