An
Experimental Study on the Formation of Designing and Making Activity
in Middle Grade School Children
H. Joh & K. Amano |
The
purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of training program
concerned with the designing and making (DM) activities and to discuss
possibilities of organizing technical constructive activity in middle
grade school children. Based on the theory of A. N. Leont'ev we can
consider that the DM activity consists of the four components: (1)
Goal formation, (2) Designing and drawing, (3) Construction, (4)
Control and regulation. The teaching program consisted of 5 stages
(21 steps in all). Six third grade school children who had not yet
acquired Euclidian concepts of space received the experimental individual
training for 3-4 months. As the results of training, it was found
that all of children could acquire not only Euclidian concepts, but
also independent DM activity, in which they could design and make
the three-D objects and products from card board intended by themselves
creatively and accurately. This study suggests that organizing DM
activity in children arouses high motivation to activity and is very
effective in promoting their learning and development.
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