COGNITIVE PROCESSES OF SEGMENTATION AND RECONTEXTUALISATION IN LEARNING THE VERTICAL THROW/FREE FALL MOVEMENT

Abstract

Duval, in his most important book published in 1995, on his semiocognitive theory of intellectual learning, provides a very comprehensive study of text comprehension, an important subject for any discipline; in mathematics, for example, understanding the wording of problems, theorems and definitions are integral parts of learning; this author sought to identify and relate the significant units in the natural language register to each other using two cognitive procedures called segmentation and recontextualisation. The significant units are important in the formation and operations related to the semiotic representation registers; these procedures, which seek to highlight the significant units, point to didactic perspectives, such as the one intended in this study: to consider the algebraic and Cartesian registers as the basis for the cognitive operations of segmentation and recontextualisation. In text comprehension, in addition to the variable associated with organisation, there is another pertinent to cognitive content, which is what the text seeks to convey: in this work, a case governed by the equations of uniformly varied rectilinear motion - vertical throw/free fall - was chosen for this purpose. In this way, a study was carried out in which algebraic and Cartesian representations are coordinated to help understand this movement based on the cognitive processes of segmentation and recontextualisation.