Cognitive Profile Of Subject About Philosophy, Principles And Characteristics Ofrealistic Mathematics Education Before And Afterstudying The Realistic Mathematics Education Learning Resource

摘要

This study aim to create cognitive profiles of elementary school teachers who have been and have not been following the workshop PMRI, before and after they learning about the realistic mathematics education learning resource in understanding about philosophy, principles, and characteristics of realistic mathematics approach. This type of research used in this study is a combination of qualitative research and developmental research. The developmental research is used to construct a realistic mathematics education learning resource. The analysis steps of qualitative data which was built by Miles and Huberman (1994) is used to create cognitive profiles of teachers who become the subject research. The triangulation process of data used in this study is the triangulation of method. The results shown in this paper is the cognitive profile of one subject who is a private elementary school teacher. Research subjects involved in the trial for the first task, the learning resource, and second task are six persons, which consists of three PGSD students who are working on the final project, and three elementary school teachers. The learning source that made by the researcher about thephilosophy, principles, and characteristics of RME can help the research subject to have the cognitive profiles inter-alia about (1) the RME philosophy, (2) progressive mathematizing, (3) the didactical phenomenology principle, and (4) the subject understand that the teacher need to help students to make the fabric of students’ knowledge, and why the teacher need to help students to make the fabric of students’ knowledge