Resumen de Paying Attention to Gesture when Students Talk Chemistry: Interactional Resources for Responsive Teaching
Virginia J. Flood, Francois G. Amar, Ricardo Nemirovsky, Benedikt W. Harrer, Mitchell R. M. Bruce, Michael C Wittmann
When students share and explore chemistry ideas with others, they use gestures and their bodies to perform their understanding. As a publicly visible, spatio-dynamic medium of expression, gestures and the body provide productive resources for imagining the submicroscopic, three-dimensional, and dynamic phenomena of chemistry together. In this paper, we analyze the role of gestures and the body as interactional resources in interactive spaces for collaborative meaning-making in chemistry. With our moment-by-moment analysis of video-recorded interviews, we demonstrate how creating spaces for, attending to, and interacting with students� gestures and bodily performances generate opportunities for learning. Implications for teaching and assessment that are responsive to students� ideas in chemistry are discussed.
