A Teaching Methods of Structural Mapping as a Visualization Process of Summary Thinking

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to propose a method of teaching abstract thinking through structural drawing that visualizes the macro structure in a liberal arts writing class at a university. First, by analyzing the results of the learner’s structure diagram from 2018 to 2021, we calculated notable issues for summary thinking training, and based on this, we proposed a practical class plan. First, it was important to clearly maintain the distance between the learner, who is the subject of the text summary, and the original author of the text. This is an important principle for accurately understanding the text and also for understanding the learners themselves, who again are the subjects of the summary. Second, it was important to adjust the level of abstraction and generalization of text information. This abstraction generalization process is a process of considering abstract thinking and the relationship between texts by reflecting the key elements constituting the text in the structural diagram. Third, it was important to understand the text composition principle through the activity to check the hierarchy among the core information constituting the text. Some examples of possible classes to help us achieve the main goal for this summary thinking were introduced. First, we presented the process of internalizing the thinking process involved in abstract thinking through multi-faceted feedback activities on the structural diagram using abstract thinking. Second, in order to strengthen the process of understanding the internal relationship of the text structure, a method for internalizing the concept and thought process used in actual thinking was suggested by comparatively analyzing the meta-activities identified in the previous feedback process. Finally, a method to strengthen the openness of summary thinking was suggested by imparting that the structure drawing activity itself has an open possibility.