Using Activity Theory to Model the Taiwan Atayal Students’ Classroom Mathematical Activity

Huang, Chih-Hsien; Lin, Fou Lai

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“…The focus of Hardman's (2007) study was on teachers rather than on students, and thus, Hardman investigated pedagogical practices by selecting object-oriented pedagogical activity as the unit of analysis. Regarding Huang and Lin (2013), they used the activity theory to model the Taiwan Atayal students' classroom mathematical activity. From the sociocultural perspective, they utilized the theory as the theoretical framework to analyze the influences of cultural factors for Taiwanese Atayal junior high school students' study in mathematics, particularly, addition and subtraction of integers.…”

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“…Precisely, they used the activity theory to understand pedagogical tensions in practice while teachers used IWBs. Although the studies have presented varying purposes, it can be noted from Table 1 that it is only Huang and Lin (2013) and Hardman (2007) who considered real mathematics content, namely addition and subtraction of integers and fractions respectively in their studies. The rest of the studies inclined to exploring programs like TEFA, Edmodo Math Subject Community, and CAMI math Software and tools like IWBs and visuals using CHAT, making them long-term studies.…”

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“…Still, the selection process of these was left to the author. While Huang and Lin (2013) collected data from 24 seventh grade Atayal students in Taiwan, Naidoo's (2017) study participants comprised of six master teachers from six different secondary schools located in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. However, both authors, too, did not reveal the participant selection process.…”

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“…Table 3 reveals that for all the studies, subjects were identified. Within the CHAT activity triangle, Beatty and Feldman (2012) and Hardman (2015; identified the individual teacher as their subject while for Huang and Lin (2013), the subjects of the activity system were the Atayal students, the teacher, and their actions and operations during the teaching/learning process. It can be discerned that whereas Atayal students are individuals, the teacher's actions and operations during the teaching/learning process are not.…”

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Using Cultural Historical Activity Theory to understand how emerging technologies can mediate teaching and learning in a mathematics classroom: a review of literature

Batiibwe

2019

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The purpose of this paper was to review literature on the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and how it has been used to understand the mediation between emerging technologies and teaching and learning in a mathematics classroom. Specifically, it aimed at understanding the genesis of CHAT and further analyzing the studies that have employed CHAT as an analytical framework for teaching and learning in a mathematics classroom context. Two major concerns arise out of this review. Firstly, CHAT has been synonymously used with Activity Theory, leaving one wondering what actually the difference between the two in terms of researchers' conceptualization is. Secondly, although CHAT has been widely utilized in education research, scholarly articles that have employed it as their theoretical or analytical frameworks in a mathematics classroom context are still too few and yet still, the few that have utilized it have not exploited its maximum potential. The implications for this review for teachers in Uganda are active student engagement and creation of collaboration spaces for dialogue and interaction in the teaching and learning process.

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2019

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“…Evoking Atayal's identification of sustainability Huang and Lin (2013) argued that Taiwanese Indigenous people prefer more visual and dynamic styles than the analytic approaches of Western science. However, Western science leans toward analytical and reductionist approaches as opposed to the more intuitive and holistic view often learned in TEK (Mazzocchi 2006).…”

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Atayal’s identification of sustainability: traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous science of a hunting culture

Fang

Lee

2015

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The history of Taiwan's Indigenous peoples is not well developed in written form, but has been passed down in oral form based on memories from the collective consciousness. However, tracing the cultural roots of Indigenous peoples' concepts of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and science is necessary to more deeply engage with Indigenous epistemologies. The main purpose of this narrative inquiry is to explore traditional concepts of the Indigenous Atayal aborigines of gaga (moral rules) and utux (faith) from a hunting culture, which has constructed their sustainability. This study was performed using qualitative social sciences. We listened to and collected stories by local tribes that live at elevations of 300-1300 m in northern Taiwan, and then conducted an analysis based on a joint construction of cultural meanings from rightsholders such as Atayal officers, tribe leaders, and local hunters. Using concepts from TEK, we determined how these concepts of gaga and utux became established in the lives of the Atayal people, and how Indigenous Atayal hunters have devoted their skills to maintaining the culture which sustains their resilient landscapes and ecosystems. Through the special cultural connotations of hunting knowledge and specifications, the hunting behavior of Taiwan's Atayal can shape a harmonic balance with ecological systems, and facilitate learning about competition and rules of survival in the natural environment.

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2020

Envisioning Environmental Literacy

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Using Activity Theory to Model the Taiwan Atayal Students’ Classroom Mathematical Activity

Cited by 11 publications

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Using Cultural Historical Activity Theory to understand how emerging technologies can mediate teaching and learning in a mathematics classroom: a review of literature

Using Cultural Historical Activity Theory to understand how emerging technologies can mediate teaching and learning in a mathematics classroom: a review of literature

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