RecordNumber
2397
Author
Kynigos, Chronis
Crop_Body
Chronis Kynigos and Elissavet Kalogeria
Title of Article
Boundary crossing in a community of interest while designing an e-book with the aim to foster students’ creativity
Title Of Journal
CERME9-NinthCongressoftheEuropean SocietyforResearchinMathematicsEducation,CharlesUniversityinPrague,FacultyofEducation; ERME
PublishInfo
University of Athens, Educational Technology Lab and CTI & Press Diophantus
Publication Year
2015
Page
2367-2373
Keywords
Boundary crossing , community of interest , resource design , expressive media
Abstract
This paper investigates the process in which teachers
of different experiences and subjects collaboratively designed
an e-book unit around ‘Windmills’, aiming to foster
students’ creativity (call c-book, c for creativity). Our
aim was to identify the characteristics of this innovative
design, as well as if and how this process can enhance
teachers’ creativity. We found that the design evolved in
four phases incorporating learning mechanisms–indicators
for teachers’ creativity: Searching for mathematical
ideas/concepts, implementation of the raw ideas,
pedagogical and /didactical contextualization, transition
to the c-book. The c-book was the boundary object
around which the participants interacted, reflected and
finally transformed their knowledge regarding the way
it should be designed to support creativity.