67.041 - New Perspectives on Intuition in Teaching

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The study of intuition in teaching has recently advanced. Researchers, working along lines suggested by Nobel laureates Herbert Simon and Daniel Kahneman, have reached a consensus that teacher intuitions arising in unpredicted classroom situations depend on complex cognitive structures formed over many years of learning and experience. Other important aspects of intuition in teaching, however, have remained unstudied. The objective of this panel is to identify and investigate three neglected topics about intuition in teaching: part-whole intuitions; possible psychological and cultural conditions for development of intuition in novice teachers; and intuition as an embodied, rhythmic way of knowing that can guide classroom practice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Holistic Education

Chair

• Lynne Alexandrova, Univerity of Toronto

Papers

• Mereological (Part-Whole) Intuitions in Teaching - Leonard J. Waks, Temple University

• Cultivating Intuition in Novice Teachers - Emily Rebecca Sadowski, Simon Fraser University

• Intuition in a New Beat: An Educational Epistemology of Rhythm, Tone, and Movement - Sean Roswell Park, McMaster University

Discussant

• Pratim Sengupta, University of Calgary