Distance Between Teacher and Students During Class, Group and Individual Classes

Abstract

The research related to the context of proxemics, carried out at the turn of 2013-2021, during teacher-student classes, during which information and communication technology (ICT) was used, was included in the following publications: "Digital school proxyemics", "Digital space teacher in the context of proxemics" and "Teaching programming in the context of proxemics" and "Robotics in education in the context of proxemics". Also in the context of proxemics, completed study "Digital competences in education in the context of proxemics". Research studies give delegations to undertake a comparison, at least only of selected issues, occurring during the research and included in the studies. It should be realized that presenting selected research results in one comparison, despite other subject areas, does not violate the very idea of comparison. It can be easily noticed that both ICT and learning programming as well as elements of robotics in education are issues in the field of computer science, and digital competences are a good complement to these issues. The issues raised in the research are one of the teaching priorities in Polish education. One of the many issues included in the above-mentioned studies is the distance between the teacher and students during classes with the class, group and individual work with selected people in the class. The research posed a problem: what is the most frequently adopted distance (and thus the sphere) during classes with students and does the distance change if the form of working with these students changes? The conducted survey conducted on the educational platform of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (województwa kujawsko-pomorskiego) <edupolis.pl> and the collection of data from the above-mentioned studies indicate the dominant distance for the personal sphere in each case, with the simultaneous shift of results in the case of working with a group or individually. The reproducibility of the obtained results is noticeable, despite the variety of research areas. The latest survey, carried out during a remote (pandemic), slightly brings different information to comparison. The curves obtained on the basis of the obtained data have the general shape of Gaussian curves, which proves a well-chosen research sample, which consisted of teachers from several provinces, working in various educational institutions. The obtained results from the research will allow both teachers and producers of teaching aids to properly prepare and conduct classes with students at various levels of education.