A Case Study of Active Learning Class Adopting Science Communication Activities: Transformation of Graduate Students’ Awareness of Integrated Learning with Mathematics and Fine Arts

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate how graduate students’ practical teaching abilities as science communicators improved and how their awareness of integrated learning with mathematics and fine arts were transformed through active learning class lessons.
They discovered geometrical figures in paintings, and demonstrated them to visitors at the Otsuka Museum of Art. Specialists at the museum, a supervisor of school education and university teachers collaborated to help students’ develop their demonstrations.
The following results were obtained:
(1) The graduate students were able to raise the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) for science communicators by themselves through science communication activities.
(2) The graduate students were able to transform their awareness of PCK for mathematics teachers by themselves through science communication activities.