Cultural Perspectives On The Mathematics Classroom

Author : Steve Lerman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401711999

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Cultural Perspectives on the Mathematics Classroom by Steve Lerman Pdf

Mathematics teaching and learning have been dominated by a concern for the intellectual readiness of the child, debates over rote learning versus understanding and, recently, mathematical processes and thinking. The gaze into today's mathematics classroom is firmly focused on the individual learner. Recently, however, studies of mathematics in social practices, including the market place and the home, have initiated a shift of focus. Culture has become identified as a key to understanding the basis on which the learner appropriates meaning. The chapters in this timely book attempt to engage with this shift of focus and offer original contributions to the debate about mathematics teaching and learning. They adopt theoretical perspectives while drawing on the classroom as both the source of investigation and the site of potential change and development. The book will be of fundamental interest to lecturers and researchers and to teachers concerned with the classroom as a cultural phenomenon.

Author : Irene Percival
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Culture
ISBN : OCLC:243514825

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The Use of Cultural Perspectives in the Elementary School Mathematics Classroom [microform] by Irene Percival Pdf

Author : Wolff-Michael Roth,Luis Radford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460915642

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A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning by Wolff-Michael Roth,Luis Radford Pdf

Eighty years ago, L. S. Vygotsky complained that psychology was misled in studying thought independent of emotion. This situation has not significantly changed, as most learning scientists continue to study cognition independent of emotion. In this book, the authors use cultural-historical activity theory as a perspective to investigate cognition, emotion, learning, and teaching in mathematics. Drawing on data from a longitudinal research program about the teaching and learning of algebra in elementary schools, Roth and Radford show (a) how emotions are reproduced and transformed in and through activity and (b) that in assessments of students about their progress in the activity, cognitive and emotional dimensions cannot be separated. Three features are salient in the analyses: (a) the irreducible connection between emotion and cognition mediates teacher-student interactions; (b) the zone of proximal development is itself a historical and cultural emergent product of joint teacher-students activity; and (c) as an outcome of joint activity, the object/motive of activity emerges as the real outcome of the learning activity. The authors use these results to propose (a) a different conceptualization of the zone of proximal development, (b) activity theory as an alternative to learning as individual/social construction, and (c) a way of understanding the material/ideal nature of objects in activity. Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He researches scientific and mathematical cognition along the life span from cultural-historical and phenomenological perspectives. He has conducted research in science and mathematics classrooms as well as having realized multi-year ethnographic studies of science and mathematics in workplaces and scientific research. Luis Radford is full professor at Laurentian University in Canada. His research interests include the investigation of mathematics thinking and knowing from a cultural-semiotic embodied perspective and the historical and cultural roots of cognition. For many years he has been conducting classroom research with primary and high-school teachers about the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Author : Falk Seeger,Jörg Voigt,Ute Waschescio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521571073

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The Culture of the Mathematics Classroom by Falk Seeger,Jörg Voigt,Ute Waschescio Pdf

The culture of the mathematics classroom is becoming an increasingly salient topic of discussion in mathematics education. Studying and changing what happens in the classroom allows researchers and educators to recognize the social character of mathematical pedagogy and the relationship between the classroom and culture at large. This volume is divided into three sections, reporting findings gained in both research and practice. The first part presents several attempts to change classroom culture by focusing on the education of mathematics teachers and on teacher-researcher collaboration. The second section shifts to the interactive processes of the mathematics classroom and to the communal nature of learning. The third section discusses the means of constructing, filtering, and establishing mathematical knowledge that are characteristic of classroom culture. This internationally relevant volume will be of particular interest to educators and educational researchers.

Author : Alan Bishop
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400926578

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Mathematical Enculturation by Alan Bishop Pdf

Mathematics is in the unenviable position of being simultaneously one of the most important school subjects for today's children to study and one of the least well understood. Its reputation is awe-inspiring. Everybody knows how important it is and everybody knows that they have to study it. But few people feel comfortable with it; so much so that it is socially quite acceptable in many countries to confess ignorance about it, to brag about one's incompe tence at doing it, and even to claim that one is mathophobic! So are teachers around the world being apparently legal sadists by inflicting mental pain on their charges? Or is it that their pupils are all masochists, enjoying the thrill of self-inflicted mental torture? More seriously, do we really know what the reasons are for the mathematical activity which goes on in schools? Do we really have confidence in our criteria for judging what's important and what isn't? Do we really know what we should be doing? These basic questions become even more important when considered in the context of two growing problem areas. The first is a concern felt in many countries about the direction which mathematics education should take in the face of the increasing presence of computers and calculator-related technol ogy in society.

Author : Jacqueline Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351255813

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Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom by Jacqueline Leonard Pdf

Advocating for the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students, this revised second edition offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teaching mathematics in a way that combats and confronts the forms of oppression that students face today. Addressing stratification based on race, class, and gender, Leonard offers lesson templates that teachers can use with ethnically and culturally diverse students and makes the link between research and practice. Connecting cutting-edge and emerging technologies to culturally specific pedagogy, the second edition features new chapters on mathematics and social justice, robotics, and spatial visualization. Applying a more expansive focus, the new edition discusses current movements such as Black Lives Matter and incorporates examples of rural and tribal students to paint a broader picture of what culturally rich mathematics classrooms actually look like. The text builds on sociocultural theory and research on culture and mathematics cognition to extend the literature and better understand minority students’ goals and learning needs. Including new discussion questions and new examples, lessons, and vignettes of integrating culture in the mathematics classroom, this book employs pedagogical research to field-test new instructional methods for culturally diverse and female students.

Author : Uwe Gellert,Christine Knipping,Hauke Straehler-Pohl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319790459

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Inside the Mathematics Class by Uwe Gellert,Christine Knipping,Hauke Straehler-Pohl Pdf

This volume is a forward–looking intersection of Sociological perspectives on mathematics classrooms and socio-political perspectives on mathematics education. The first perspective has generated a substantial body of knowledge in the mathematics education. Interactionist research has deepened our understanding of interaction processes, socio-mathematical norms and the negotiation of meaning, generating a ‘micro-sociology’ or a ‘micro-ethnography’ of the mathematics classroom. More recently, socio-political perspectives on mathematics education interrelate educational practices in mathematics with macro-social issues of social equity, class, and race and with the policies that regulate institutionalized mathematics education. This book documents, strings together and juxtaposes research that uses ethnographical classroom data to explain, on the one hand, how socio-political issues play out in the mathematics class. On the other hand, it illuminates how class, race etc. affect the micro-sociology of the mathematics classroom. The volume advances the knowledge in the field by providing an empirical grounding of socio-political research on mathematics education, and it extends the frame in which mathematical classroom cultures are conceived.

Author : Philip Clarkson,Wee Tiong Seah,JeongSuk Pang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030168926

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Values and Valuing in Mathematics Education by Philip Clarkson,Wee Tiong Seah,JeongSuk Pang Pdf

This engaging open access book discusses how a values and valuing perspective can facilitate a more effective mathematics pedagogical experience, and allows readers to explore multiple applications of the values perspective across different education systems. It also clearly shows that teaching mathematics involves not only reasoning and feelings, but also students’ interactions with their cultural setting and each other. The book brings together the work of world leaders and new thinkers in mathematics educational research to improve the learning and teaching of mathematics. Addressing themes such as discovering hidden cultural values, a multicultural society and methodological issues in the investigation of values in mathematics, it stimulates readers to consider these topics in cross-cultural ways, and offers suggestions for research and classroom practice. It is a valuable resource for scholars of mathematics education, from early childhood through to higher education and an inspiring read for all mathematics teachers.

Author : Geneva Gay
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807750780

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Culturally Responsive Teaching by Geneva Gay Pdf

The achievement of students of color continues to be disproportionately low at all levels of education. More than ever, Geneva Gay's foundational book on culturally responsive teaching is essential reading in addressing the needs of today's diverse student population. Combining insights from multicultural education theory and research with real-life classroom stories, Gay demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through their own cultural experiences. This bestselling text has been extensively revised to include expanded coverage of student ethnic groups: African and Latino Americans as well as Asian and Native Americans as well as new material on culturally diverse communication, addressing common myths about language diversity and the effects of "English Plus" instruction.

Author : Jacqueline Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351255820

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Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom by Jacqueline Leonard Pdf

Advocating for the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students, this revised second edition offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teaching mathematics in a way that combats and confronts the forms of oppression that students face today. Addressing stratification based on race, class, and gender, Leonard offers lesson templates that teachers can use with ethnically and culturally diverse students and makes the link between research and practice. Connecting cutting-edge and emerging technologies to culturally specific pedagogy, the second edition features new chapters on mathematics and social justice, robotics, and spatial visualization. Applying a more expansive focus, the new edition discusses current movements such as Black Lives Matter and incorporates examples of rural and tribal students to paint a broader picture of what culturally rich mathematics classrooms actually look like. The text builds on sociocultural theory and research on culture and mathematics cognition to extend the literature and better understand minority students’ goals and learning needs. Including new discussion questions and new examples, lessons, and vignettes of integrating culture in the mathematics classroom, this book employs pedagogical research to field-test new instructional methods for culturally diverse and female students.

Author : Milton Rosa,Ubiratan D’Ambrosio,Daniel Clark Orey,Lawrence Shirley,Wilfredo V. Alangui,Pedro Palhares,Maria Elena Gavarrete
Publisher : Springer
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319301204

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Current and Future Perspectives of Ethnomathematics as a Program by Milton Rosa,Ubiratan D’Ambrosio,Daniel Clark Orey,Lawrence Shirley,Wilfredo V. Alangui,Pedro Palhares,Maria Elena Gavarrete Pdf

This survey on the modernity of ethnomathematics addresses numerous themes related to both ethnomathematics and mathematics education. It offers a broader view of mathematics, including ideas, procedures, concepts, processes, methods, and practices rooted in distinct cultural environments. In addition, by reflecting on the social and political dimensions of ethnomathematics, another important aspect of this research program is the development of innovative approaches for a dynamic and glocalized society. Ethnomathematics recognizes that members of different cultures develop unique mathematical techniques, methods, and explanations that allow for an alternative understanding and transformation of societal norms. The theoretical basis of ethnomathematics offers a valid alternative to traditional studies of history, philosophy, cognition, and pedagogical aspects of mathematics. The current agenda for ethnomathematics is to continue an ongoing, progressive trajectory that contributes to the achievement of social justice, peace, and dignity for all. The debates outlined in this book share a few of the key ideas that provide for a clearer understanding of the field of ethnomathematics and its current state of the art by discussing its pedagogical actions, its contributions for teacher education, and its role in mathematics education.

Author : D. Clarke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780306472282

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Perspectives on Practice and Meaning in Mathematics and Science Classrooms by D. Clarke Pdf

This is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research tradition that converges on the truth. The reader is surrounded with different images of the classroom and will find his beliefs confirmed or challenged. The book is for educational researchers, research students, and practitioners with an interest in optimizing the effectiveness of classrooms as environments for learning.

Author : Edna O. Schack,Molly H. Fisher,Jennifer A. Wilhelm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319467535

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Teacher Noticing: Bridging and Broadening Perspectives, Contexts, and Frameworks by Edna O. Schack,Molly H. Fisher,Jennifer A. Wilhelm Pdf

This book reflects on the continuing development of teacher noticing through an exploration of the latest research. The authors and editors seek to clarify the construct of teacher noticing and its related branches and respond to challenges brought forth in earlier research. The authors also investigate teacher noticing in multiple contexts and frameworks, including mathematics, science, international venues, and various age groups.

Author : Prof Leone Burton,Leone Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135698485

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Learning Mathematics by Prof Leone Burton,Leone Burton Pdf

Learning Mathematics brings together a collection of interrelated and forward-looking chapters by internationally recognized experts that explores changes in the theories and practices of learning (and teaching) mathematics. The authors reject a traditional, transmission view of the teaching of mathematics which has proved so ineffective for learning. In its place they offer information gathered from research and from practice about effects on the learners seeking to create and negotiate meaning. Learners are presented as actively attempting to make sense of the mathematics they encounter, and learners, teachers and researchers are offered examples of ho such sense-making activities, incorporated into mathematics classrooms, impact on coming to know. The book celebrates both diversity, in the range of different perspectives, contributions and topics, and unity, in the linking chapters and themes, It will be fascinating reading for those mathematics educators who are eager to engage with a socio-cultural perspective in order to better understand the complexity of learning mathematics.

Author : Paul Cobb,Heinrich Bauersfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136486104

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The Emergence of Mathematical Meaning by Paul Cobb,Heinrich Bauersfeld Pdf

This book grew out of a five-year collaboration between groups of American and German mathematics educators. The central issue addressed accounting for the messiness and complexity of mathematics learning and teaching as it occurs in classroom situations. The individual chapters are based on the view that psychological and sociological perspectives each tell half of a good story. To unify these concepts requires a combined approach that takes individual students' mathematical activity seriously while simultaneously seeing their activity as necessarily socially situated. Throughout their collaboration, the chapter authors shared a single set of video recordings and transcripts made in an American elementary classroom where instruction was generally compatible with recent reform recommendations. As a consequence, the book is much more than a compendium of loosely related papers. The combined approach taken by the authors draws on interactionism and ethnomethodology. Thus, it constitutes an alternative to Vygotskian and Soviet activity theory approaches. The specific topics discussed in individual chapters include small group collaboration and learning, the teacher's practice and growth, and language, discourse, and argumentation in the mathematics classroom. This collaborative effort is valuable to educators and psychologists interested in situated cognition and the relation between sociocultural processes and individual psychological processes.