[ES] La presente tesis doctoral tiene el propósito de afirmar la existencia, así como de dar cuenta de las posibilidades, de una metodología propia de mediación entre la obra de arte contemporáneo y especialistas en educación. Su carácter es expandido y atento a la visualidad. Con expandido se entiende por una parte, la cualidad de situarse interrelacionadamente en diferentes contextos: el centro de arte, el aula universitaria y la escolar. Por otra, la de fomentar desplazamientos y cruces del campo educativo al del arte y del campo del arte al educativo. Esto desemboca en la generación de nuevas identidades docentes y nuevas formas de ser artista así como en nuevas formas de colaboración entre estos profesionales, en favor de una revitalización del hecho artístico, mejoras en la educación artística y en la educación interdisciplinar desde el arte. Con atención a la visualidad se entiende el carácter de una mediación en la que la realidad sentipensante, la estética y la visualidad se proponen como ejes de la acción de mediación y como guías que pueden equilibrar la tendencia a la sobrexposición de la subjetividad del receptor de la obra de arte y la tendencia a sobrexponer las cualidades de la obra frente a las experiencias del receptor, de tal modo que se valore un equilibrio relacional obra-sujeto. Esta propuesta de mediación tiene sentido desde un proceso deselitizador del arte, desde una perspectiva reestetizadora de la educación artística y desde una dirección repersonalizadora de la relación del artista-receptor con la obra y del artista con la sociedad. Su planteamiento filosófico de fondo es pragmatista. La investigación se sitúa en un campo entre la práctica del arte y la educación artística. El posicionamiento de la que parte es a/r/tográfico. Todos estos planteamientos se concretan en el contexto espacio y tiempo de nueve años de trabajo en el campo de la docencia desde la materia de Didáctica artística del Grado de Educación en Florida Universitaria por una profesora (la misma que investiga y escribe estas letras) de formación y trayectoria como pintora. La metodología de investigación aplicada es la educativa basada en artes visuales y la a/r/tográfica. Desde este marco metodológico se proponen dos estrategias de investigación: la fotonovela para la mediación artística y la Logotesis para la investigación a/r/tográfica. / [CA] La present tesi doctoral té el propòsit d'afirmar l'existència, així com de donar compte de les possibilitats, d'una metodologia pròpia de mediació entre l'obra d'art contemporani i especialistes en educació. El seu caràcter és expandit i atent a la visualitat. Amb expandit s'entén d'una banda, la qualitat de situar-se interrelacionadament en diferents contextos: el centre d'art, l'aula universitària i l'escolar. Per una altra banda, la de fomentar desplaçaments i entrecreuaments del camp educatiu al de l'art i del camp de l'art a l'educatiu. Això desemboca en la generació de noves identitats docents i noves maneres de ser artista així com en noves formes de col·laboració entre aquests professionals, en favor a una revitalització del fet artístic, millores en l'educació artística i en l'educació interdisciplinària des de l'art. Amb atenció a la visualitat s'entén el caràcter d'una mediació en la qual la realitat sentipensant, l'estètica i la visualitat es proposen com a eixos de l'acció de mediació i com a guies que poden equilibrar la tendència a la sobrexposició de la subjectivitat del receptor de l'obra d'art i la tendència a sobrexposar les qualitats de l'obra enfront de les experiències del receptor, de tal manera que es valore un equilibri relacional obra-subjecte. Aquesta proposta de mediació té sentit des d'un procés des-elititzador de l'art, des d'una perspectiva re-estetitzadora de l'educació artística i des d'una direcció re-personalitzadora de la relació de l'artista-receptor amb l'obra i de l'artista amb la societat. El seu plantejament filosòfic de fons és pragmatista. La investigació se situa en un camp entre la pràctica de l'art i l'educació artística. El seu posicionament és a/r/tográfic. Tots aquests plantejaments es concreten en el context espai i temps de nou anys de treball en el camp de la docència des de la matèria de Didàctica artística del Grau d'Educació a Florida Universitària d'una professora (la mateixa que investiga i escriu aquestes lletres) de formació i trajectòria com a pintora. La metodologia d'investigació aplicada és l'educativa basada en arts visuals i l'a/r/togràfica. Des d'aquest marc metodològic es proposen dues estratègies d'investigació: la fotonovela per a la mediació artística, i la Logotesis, per a la investigació a/r/togràfica. / [EN] This doctoral thesis is aimed at stating he existence, as well as to account for the possibilities, of a methodology of mediation between the work of contemporary art and education specialists. It has both an expanded and an attentive-to-visuality nature. By expanded we mean, on the one hand, the quality of situating itself interrelatedly in different contexts: the art centre, the university classroom and the school classroom. On the other hand, it encourages shiftings and crossovers from the field of education to the field of art and from the field of art to the field of education. This leads to the generation of new teaching identities and new ways of being an artist, as well as new forms of collaboration between these professionals, in favour of a revitalisation of the artistic fact, improvements in art education and interdisciplinary education from art. Attention to visuality is understood as the nature of a mediation in which thinking and sentient reality, aesthetics and visuality are proposed as axes of the action of mediation and as guides that can balance the tendency to overdisplay the subjectivity of the receiver of the work of art and the tendency to overdisplay the qualities of the work against the experiences of the receiver, in such a way that a work-subject relational balance is valued. This mediation proposal makes sense from a de-eliticising process of art, from a re-aesthetising perspective of art education and from a re-personalising direction of the relationship of the artist-recipient with the work and of the artist with society. Its basic philosophical approach is pragmatist. The research is situated in a field between art practice and art education. The position from which it starts is a/r/tographic. All these approaches take place in the space and time context of nine years of work in the field of teaching Art Didactics for the Degree in Education at Florida Universitaria by a teacher (the same one who is researching and writing these lines) with a background and career as a painter. The research methodology applied is the educational methodology based on visual arts and a/r/tography. From this methodological framework, two research strategies are proposed: the Photo-novel for the artistic mediation, and the Logothesis, for the a/r/tographic research. / Rueda Gascó, L. (2023). Mediación expandida. Un estudio a/r/tográfico y educativo basado en la visualidad entre la obra de arte contemporáneo y docentes de Infantil y Primaria [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/193687

Thèse sur travaux, l’ensemble est constitué d’un tome de « fil rouge » de 119 pages et de quatre tomes de travaux, reproduisant successivement (A) des livres, livres collectifs, articles et contributions à un ouvrage collectif, (B) des rapports d’inspection générale dont l’auteur a été le pilote ou le copilote, (C) des articles de revues, (D) des conférences et communications et (E) des interviews publiées. La première partie s’explique sur les circonstances qui ont présidé au cours de la carrière d’un haut-fonctionnaire de l’administration de l’éducation nationale à la production régulière de travaux et sur la constitution progressive d’un corpus tirant sa première cohérence de ses objets. Elle répond aussi à la question des motivations, superficielles ou profondes de la demande de légitimation universitaire de ces travaux dans le cadre d’une thèse de doctorat, de même qu’elle s’interroge sur ce qui peut étayer cette légitimation, en termes de construction d’objet, de raisonnements et de résultats.La deuxième partie reprend des travaux antérieurs ce qui traite de la façon dont le système éducatif français est gouverné, à partir des deux sous-titres « Un ministère de l’ignorance ? » et « Le désordre des pouvoirs éducatifs » : il est montré en quoi la sacralisation de la notion de système éducatif, le discours factice sur l’évaluation, la fermeture hexagonale de l’essentiel du débat sur l’éducation, ainsi que le peu d’intérêt institutionnel vis-à-vis des connaissances sur l’école concourent à renforcer un Etat éducateur central aussi monopoliste qu’impuissant.La troisième partie est plus spécifiquement consacrée à un aspect souvent négligé du système éducatif, à savoir les politiques curriculaires : l’auteur montre non seulement que le concept même de curriculum n’est pas utilisé, mais aussi que le désordre qui caractérise depuis longtemps la « fabrique des contenus » d’enseignement en France fait paradoxalement système avec une indifférence aux apprentissages des élèves qui n’est qu’un aspect du caractère sélectif des traditions éducatives françaises. Il analyse enfin dans quelle mesure le « socle commun de compétences en fin de scolarité obligatoire » inaugure une première « politique curriculaire » dans le cadre de ce pays. / This thesis, consisting mainly in submitting a corpus of previous works, is made of one “guiding light” volume (119 pages) and four volumes that reproduce (A) books, collective books, articles and contributions to collective works, (B) official reports of “inspection générale” of which the author was main or associated pilot, (C) articles from reviews, (D) lectures and communications, and (E) published interviews.The first part explains from which circumstances a senior civil servant of the Department of Education regularly produced such works since 1985 and how these works step by step got their first consistency. It also tells from which motivations, be they superficial or deeper, the academic legitimization of these works is aimed for in the framework of a PhD. It also questions the grounds of this academic legitimacy, from the ways the objects were built, the kinds of reasoning that are used and the produced results themselves. The second part starts from what in the previous works dealt with the way the French Educational system is ruled, with two subtitles “A Department of ignorance?” and “Disorder in Educational authorities” : it is shown to what extent the notion of “educational system”, made sacred as it is, together with fallacious political positions about evaluation, with the frequent ignorance of international issues in most educational decisions, and with a weak official interest towards knowledge about education, reinforces the central State, as far as Education is concerned, as an actor paradoxically monopolistic, ignorant and powerless.The third part is more specifically dedicated to one aspect of the educational system that is often ignored and taboo, namely curricular policies: the author does not only show that the concept of curriculum itself is not used, but that the disorder that has for long characterized the way the curricula are produced in France, makes up a system together with a disinterest towards what students actually learn, this disinterest being itself part of the selection-oriented French educational tradition. Eventually, it analyses to which extent the introduction of the “common core of competencies to be reached at the end of compulsory education” (“socle commun”) opens the way for the first curricular policy in this country.

<p>Recently, exploration to develop creative and technology-centered learning techniques have become popular. Researchers work on non-traditional tools to help students understand abstract concepts and reduce misconceptions in physics education. Studies have been performed to explore the influence computer simulations can make on learning as compared to the traditional methods. Simulations with dynamic moving images which engage visual senses have helped improve learning, while haptic channels are unexplored in comparison tactile senses are crucial in the case of embodied cognitive learning.</p><p><br></p><p>This thesis takes an opportunity to explore the research area of haptic technology combined with visual simulation. It tests the efficiency of the learning environment developed as a part of this thesis called the Visuo-Haptic Pulley Simulation (ViHaPS) in learning concepts of when compared to traditional learning tools. ViHaPS consists of six different scenarios and is designed to address common misconceptions of pulleys and has two different modes - minimal visual cues and added visual cues. Undergraduate students enrolled at Purdue University participated in this research. They were formed into two groups - an experimental group (ViHaPS) and control group (physical manipulatives) and were compared for learning gains.</p><p> </p><p><br></p><p>Results indicate that ViHaPS is useful in learning concepts of pulleys; however, the results are not significant in comparison to the real experimentation with pulleys.</p>

O Centro Brasileiro e os Centros Regionais de Pesquisas Educacionais foram instituições criadas no interior da estrutura do Ministério da Educação e Cultura, em 1955. A finalidade principal dos Centros era realizar pesquisas cujos resultados pudessem ser utilizados na elaboração de uma nova política educacional capaz de tornar a educação escolarizada, efetivamente, um dos fatores favoráveis ao desenvolvimento econômico e social que se processava, em diferentes ritmos, nas diversas regiões do país àquela época. A partir da identificação dos projetos de pesquisa que foram propostos por todos os Centros, durante todos os anos em que neles foram desenvolvidas atividades de pesquisa, foi possível constatar a existência de dois períodos distintos em sua produção: um, transcorrido do início do funcionamento dos Centros até, aproximadamente, 1961; e, outro, que começou em 1962 e se estendeu até o princípio da década de 1970. Tendo em vista o objetivo de compreender as mudanças apresentadas pelos projetos de pesquisas dos Centros nos dois períodos identificados, foram estabelecidas relações entre essas mudanças e os diversos propósitos que orientaram a realização daqueles projetos, assim como com as políticas educacionais promovidas pelo governo federal entre as décadas de 1950 e 1970. Os resultados alcançados indicam que os Centros passaram da condição de instituições que se propunham a gerar subsídios científicos à tomada de decisões políticas relativas à educação, através da realização de pesquisas que enfatizavam a interpretação das relações existentes entre a educação escolarizada e as mudanças em curso na sociedade brasileira, para a condição de instituições que subsidiavam a implementação de políticas previamente elaboradas por outras instâncias de poder, promovendo a realização de pesquisas cuja ênfase se circunscrevia à análise de aspectos internos ao funcionamento da escola. / The Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Educacionais (Brazilian Center of Educational Research) and the Centros Regionais de Pesquisas Educacionais (Regional Centers of Educational Research) were institutions created inside the structure of the Ministério da Educação e Cultura (Ministry of Education and Culture) in 1955. The Centers aimed at realizing researches whose results could be used in the elaboration of a new educational policy capable of effectively rendering school education one of the favorable factors to the economic and social development in course, in different rhythms, in the different regions of the country at the time. Based on a survey of the research projects which were proposed by all the Centers, during all the years in which there was research activity within them, it was possible to identify the existence of two distinct periods in their research production: one from the creation of the Centers until, approximately, 1961; and another starting in 1962 and stretching until the early 1970s. This works\' objective is to understand the changes shown by the Centers\' research projects through the two identified periods by establishing relations between these changes and the different purposes that oriented the realization of these projects, as well as with the educational policies promoted by the federal government from the 1950s to the 1970s. The results reached indicate that the Centers, beginning as institutions that proposed to generate scientific assistance to the making of educational policy decisions, passed to the condition of institutions that gave support to the implementation of policies previously elaborated by other instances of power. Correspondingly, the content of the research projects changed from the realization of research that emphasized the interpretation of the existing relation between school education and the changes in course in the Brazilian society to promoting the realization of research that was circumscribed to the analysis of internal aspects of the school activity.

Le développement rapide des nouvelles technologies numériques est en passe de révolutionner l’enseignement classique de l’odontologie comme dans de nombreuses spécialités médicales. En effet, l’avènement de nouveaux dispositifs alliant réalité virtuelle et dispositif haptique permettant de simuler au plus juste les gestes techniques de l’odontologie, laisse entrevoir la possibilité d’évaluer plus objectivement les compétences des futurs Chirurgiens-Dentistes et de renforcer la formation traditionnelle. Au travers de différentes expérimentations pédagogiques dans les domaines de l’implantologie, de la dentisterie restauratrice et de la chirurgie orale, nous avons voulu : (i) évaluer l’impact de la simulation haptique sur la formation en odontologie en nous focalisant sur l’implantologie et la dentisterie restauratrice ; (ii) définir de nouveaux paramètres pédagogiques pour essayer de les évaluer objectivement et estimer l’importance de la vision 3D en simulation / The rapid development of new digital technologies is revolutionizing the classical teaching of dentistry as in many medical specialties. Indeed, the advent of new devices combining virtual reality with a haptic device allowing to simulate the technical gestures of odontology, suggests the possibility to evaluate the skills of future Dentists more objectively and to strengthen traditional training. Through various educational experiments in the fields of implantology, restorative dentistry and oral surgery, we wanted to: (i) assess the impact of haptic simulation on odontology training by focusing on implantology and restorative dentistry ; (ii) define new objectively evaluable pedagogical parameters and to estimate the importance of 3D vision in simulation

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:32:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliana Maria Oligurski.pdf: 2357030 bytes, checksum: a13b8382f2a4427b09c4e98d6b086557 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-09 / This research aims to verify the possible link between teaching and research in teacher s work in basic education. The research was conducted in a Municipal Elementary School in the city of Campinas, with teachers and students of the first years of Elementary School. We analyzed documents, as the Pedagogical Project of the school and texts presented by students, and also interviewed students and teachers in order to clarify their conceptions of research. The results of this research point out that it is possible to develop a pedagogical practice in Elementary School articulating teaching and research, and taking research as a way to promote intellectual and integral development of students, as well as integration between school and its community. Nevertheless, to achieve this objective, it is necessary that the school, and the educational system as a whole, offer conditions for projects like the one exposed in this study to achieve success. / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo verificar a poss?vel articula??o entre ensino e pesquisa na pr?tica pedag?gica do professor da educa??o b?sica. O estudo foi realizado em uma escola da Rede Municipal de Campinas-SP, com alunos e professores das s?ries iniciais do ensino fundamental, a partir da an?lise de documentos, como o Projeto Pol?tico Pedag?gico da Escola, e de trabalhos produzidos pelos estudantes. Foram tamb?m realizadas entrevistas e question?rios para an?lise das concep??es de pesquisa destes professores e alunos. Os resultados apontam que ? poss?vel desenvolver na escola b?sica uma pr?tica pedag?gica que articule ensino e pesquisa, tornando esta ?ltima uma fonte catalizadora de desenvolvimento integral e intelectual dos alunos, bem como de integra??o entre escola e comunidade. Para tal, no entanto, ? de fundamental import?ncia que a escola, e o sistema educativo como um todo, ofere?am condi??es para que propostas como as analisadas no presente estudo possam ser efetivadas.

The complexities of how people learn have plagued researchers for centuries. A range of experimental and non-experimental methodologies have been used to isolate and implement positive interventions for students' cognitive, meta-cognitive, behavioral, and socio-emotional successes in learning. But the face of learning is changing in the digital age. The value of accrued knowledge, popular throughout the industrial age, is being overpowered by the value of curiosity and the ability to ask critical questions. Most students can access the largest free collection of human knowledge (and cat videos) with ease using their phones or laptops and omnipresent cellular and Wi-Fi networks. Viewing this new-age capacity for connection as an opportunity, educational stakeholders have delegated many traditional learning tasks to online environments. With this influx of online learning, student errors can be corrected with immediacy, student data is more prevalent and actionable, and teachers can intervene with efficiency and efficacy. As such, endeavors in educational data mining, learning analytics, and authentic educational research at scale have grown popular in recent years; fields afforded by the luxuries of technology and driven by the age-old goal of understanding how people learn. This dissertation explores the evolution and application of ASSISTments Research, an approach to authentic educational research at scale that leverages ASSISTments, a popular online learning platform, to better understand how people learn. Part I details the evolution and advocacy of two tools that form the research arm of ASSISTments: the ASSISTments TestBed and the Assessment of Learning Infrastructure (ALI). An NSF funded Data Infrastructure Building Blocks grant (#1724889, $494,644 2017-2020), outlines goals for the new age of ASSISTments Research as a result of lessons learned in recent years. Part II details a personal application of these research tools with a focus on the framework of Self Determination Theory. The primary facets of this theory, thought to positively affect learning and intrinsic motivation, are investigated in depth through randomized controlled trials targeting Autonomy, Belonging, and Competence. Finally, a synthesis chapter highlights important connections between Parts I & II, offering lessons learned regarding ASSISTments Research and suggesting additional guidance for its future development, while broadly defining contributions to the Learning Sciences community.

This arts-based, qualitative investigation focused on high school English teachers of students with learning dis/abilities (Baglieri & Knopf, 2004) who used visual arts integration (Eisner, 2002) to find out how teachers experience using visual arts in English and what their experiences mean (Zoss & White, 2011) in order to understand why certain experiences stood out for the teachers as being important. I framed the study theoretically with complexity theories of teaching and learning (Davis, Sumara, & Luce-Kapler, 2008), while combining aspects of sociocultural theory (Smagorinsky, 2001; Vygotsky, 1978; Wertsch, 1991), cognitive pluralism (John-Steiner, 1997) and Dewey’s notion of experience (1934/1980). The teacher participants were three high school English teachers employed at an independent school for students with learning dis/abilities. A/r/tography (Irwin & Springgay, 2008; Springgay, Irwin, & Kind, 2005, 2008) influenced my methodology in that I created visual art to theorize the data and my experiences conducting the study. I collected data during spring and summer 2011. Data sources included participant observation and field notes (Dewalt & Dewalt, 2002), photography (Coover, 2004; Harper 2000, 2002), teachers’ visual texts (La Jevic & Springgay, 2008), artifacts (Prior, 2003), and interviews (Smagorinsky, 2008; Smagorinsky & Coppock, 1994). I used qualitative methods of coding analysis (Charmaz, 2006; Ezzy, 2002; Saldaña, 2009) and visual analysis (Riessman, 2008; Rose, 2001), as well as arts-based methods for educational research (Cahnmann-Taylor & Siegesmund, 2008). This study fills a gap in empirical research in both English education and special education by examining English teachers integrating art in classes for students with dis/abilities. Furthermore, understanding how teachers experience visual arts integration can inform methods courses for teaching secondary English educators.

Internet Memes transverse and sometimes transcend cyberspace on the back of impossibly cute LOLcats speaking mangled English and the snarky remarks of Image Macro characters always on the lookout for someone to undermine. No longer the abstract notion of a cultural gene that Dawkins (2006) introduced in the late 1970s, memes have now become synonymous with a particular brand of vernacular language that internet users engage by posting, sharing and remixing digital content as they communicate jokes, emotions and opinions. For the purpose of this research the language of Internet Memes is understood as visual, succinct and capable of inviting active engagement by users who encounter digital content online that exhibits said characteristics. Internet Memes were explored through an Arts-Based Educational Research framework by first identifying the conventions that shape them and then interrogating these conventions during two distinct research phases. In the first phase the researcher, as a doctoral student in art and visual culture education, engaged class readings and assignments by generating digital content that not only responded to the academic topics at hand but did so through forms associated with Internet Memes like Image Macros and Animated GIFs. In the second phase the researcher became a meme literacy facilitator as learners in three different age-groups were led in the reading, writing and remixing of memes during a month-long summer art camp where they were also exposed to other art-making processes such as illustration, acting and sculpture. Each group of learners engaged age-appropriate meme types: 1) the youngest group, 6 and 7 year-olds, wrote Emoji Stories and Separated at Birth memes; 2) the middle group, 8-10 year-olds, worked with Image Macros and Perception memes, 3) while the oldest group, 11-13 year-olds, generated Image Macros and Animated GIFs. The digital content emerging from both research phases was collected as data and analyzed through a hybrid of Memetics, Actor-Network Theory, Object Oriented Ontology, Remix Theory and Glitch Studies as the researcher shifted shapes yet again and became a Research Jockey sampling freely from each field of study. A case is made for Internet Memes to be understood as an actor-network where meme collectives, individual cybernauts, software and source material are all actants interrelating and making each other enact collective agencies through shared authorships. Additionally specific educational contexts are identified where the language of Internet Memes can serve to incorporate technology, storytelling, visual thinking and remix practices into art and visual culture education. Finally, the document reporting on the research expands on the hermeneutics of Internet Memes and the phenomenological experiences they elicit that are otherwise absent from traditional scholarly prose. Chapter by chapter the dissertation was crafted as a journey from the academic to the whimsical, from the lecture hall to the image board (where Internet Memes were born), from the written word to the remixed image as a visual language that is equal parts form and content that emerges and culminates in a concluding chapter composed almost entirely of popular Internet Meme types. An online component can be found at http://memeducation.org/

To date, research of computer science education in the elementary classroom has focused on technology-dependent tools like Alice, Scratch, LOGO and LEGO Mind-storms. While these tools seem to have the potential to support learning in accordance with constructionist theory, they have not lived up to expectations. Results of this research, in particular the impact of programming instruction on student achieve- ment, have been weak or mixed. Possible reasons for this are many, including the corresponding threshold and friction associated with technology-dependent learning. Inspired by a trend of non-technology-dependent instruction of computer science topics, as demonstrated by the success of Computer Science Unplugged by Tim Bell, Mike Fellows and Ian Witten, we have chosen instead to investigate the impact of unplugged computer science instruction on Grade Six students. The shift away from programming instruction may also serve to help dispel the myth that computer science is programming. Computer science is a broad and diverse field which impacts the lives of all people in a multitude of ways. It is not yet clear what the best approach is for integrating computer science education into the elementary classroom. One suggestion is to teach computer science topics such that they support other areas of elementary education. For example, students are encouraged to adopt many different problem solving strategies, as supported by the British Columbia Ministry of Education’s K-7 Mathematics Integrated Resource Package (IRP). These strategies include “draw a picture”. Graph theory has the potential to support problem solving as a means of representing complex connections and relationships in a clear and concise manner. Alternatively, a standalone computer science curriculum may be appropriate, in the spirit of the Computer Science Teacher’s Association (CSTA) “A Model Curriculum for K-12 Computer Science”. Whatever the approach, an important, and fundamental, step in making curricular change is to support the need for change with sound educational research. Only then can we hope to earn the support of the stakeholders, such as school districts and teacher education programs, who can make this change a reality. In this pilot study, we investigate the impact of graph theory lessons in two Grade Six math classes. Because of the small class sizes and somewhat reduced participation rates, the results of this study need to be verified with further, larger scale studies. However, early indications are that Grade Six students are capable of learning graph theory, and applying it when working on mathematical word problems. In some cases, there appears to be an association between students’ ability to apply graph theory as one of many problem solving strategies, and the correctness of their solutions to problems.