Title: Supporting cultural education using digital concept mapping

Authors: Andreanna Koufou

Addresses: Department of Culture in Education of Primary Education, Perfecture of Achaia, Ermou 70, Patras, 26221, Greece

Abstract: The paper presents an educational methodology of recording the conceptual representations of children using digital concept mapping, in order to design and implement a curriculum on cultural education in primary school. Digital concept mapping combines the advantages of the concept mapping strategy with the accessibility and flexibility of a computer-based environment in order to record and study the conceptual representations of children about a theme in order to set the proper goals and to choose the educational process. The paper presents also the result analysis which depicts the process of knowledge construction for students of the preliminary school in the field of cultural education.

Keywords: cultural education; conceptual representation; digital concept mapping; learning process; individual learning; collaborative learning; assessment rubrics; children; primary schools; primary education; knowledge construction; cultural heritage.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2016.075987

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 2016 Vol.5 No.1, pp.106 - 118

Received: 02 Jan 2015
Accepted: 16 Oct 2015
Published online: 20 Apr 2016 *

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