TY - GEN
T1 - The Effect of Teacher Unconscious Behaviors on the Collective Unconscious Behavior of the Classroom
AU - Araya, Roberto
AU - Farsani, Danyal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Normally teachers can consciously control to a great extent the behaviors of their students in the classroom. But additionally, there are unconscious teacher behaviors that also impact the collective behavior of their students. To study this phenomenon, we gather data obtained from mini video cameras mounted on eyeglasses worn by fourth graders. We found that the proportion of scenes where the teacher is pointing his body toward the student is higher than the proportion of scenes when there is mutual gaze, and that this effect is slight pronounced in STEM classes. We also found that this effect is greater among boys than girls, and that is particularly evident at certain distances. More precisely, we found that in STEM classes when a male student is observing the teacher, the teacher is generally pointing their body toward the student (67% of cases). However, with female students, this number is just 46%. However, there is no such difference in non-STEM classes. Moreover, the distance between the student and the teacher also has a significant effect. This is a powerful tool for teachers as it can help them reflect on their strategies, as well as the impact of their unconscious nonverbal behavior in classroom behavior.
AB - Normally teachers can consciously control to a great extent the behaviors of their students in the classroom. But additionally, there are unconscious teacher behaviors that also impact the collective behavior of their students. To study this phenomenon, we gather data obtained from mini video cameras mounted on eyeglasses worn by fourth graders. We found that the proportion of scenes where the teacher is pointing his body toward the student is higher than the proportion of scenes when there is mutual gaze, and that this effect is slight pronounced in STEM classes. We also found that this effect is greater among boys than girls, and that is particularly evident at certain distances. More precisely, we found that in STEM classes when a male student is observing the teacher, the teacher is generally pointing their body toward the student (67% of cases). However, with female students, this number is just 46%. However, there is no such difference in non-STEM classes. Moreover, the distance between the student and the teacher also has a significant effect. This is a powerful tool for teachers as it can help them reflect on their strategies, as well as the impact of their unconscious nonverbal behavior in classroom behavior.
KW - Body orientation
KW - Collective intelligence
KW - Data mining
KW - Engagement
KW - Nonverbal communication
KW - Visual attention
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-63119-2_43
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-63119-2_43
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85097093311
SN - 9783030631185
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 529
EP - 540
BT - Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence - 12th International Conference, ICCCI 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Hernes, Marcin
A2 - Wojtkiewicz, Krystian
A2 - Szczerbicki, Edward
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 12th International Conference on International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2020
Y2 - 30 November 2020 through 3 December 2020
ER -