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de Freitas, Elizabeth – Educational Theory, 2014
In this essay Elizabeth de Freitas follows Tim Ingold's groundbreaking anthropological work on lines and their cultural and material significance to argue that the line is the engine of theory, be it the drawn line of inscription or mathematical measure, the exclusionary line of delineation, or the undulating generative line of flight. De…
Descriptors: Perception, Theories, Human Body, Topology
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de Freitas, Elizabeth; McCarthy, MaryJean – PNA, 2014
In this paper, we focus on topological approaches to space and we argue that experiences with topology allow middle school students to develop a more robust understanding of orientation and dimension. We frame our argument in terms of the phenomenological literature on perception and corporeal space. We discuss findings from a quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts, Perception