Unpacking Pedagogy

Unpacking Pedagogy
Author: Margaret Walshaw
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607524295

This volume represents a serious attempt to understand what it is that structures the pedagogical experience. In that attempt there are two main objectives. One is a theoretical interest that involves examining the issue of the subjectivity of the teacher and exploring how intersubjective negotiations shape the production of classroom practice. A second objective is to apply these understandings to the production of mathematical knowledge and to the construction of identities in actual mathematics classrooms. To that end book contains substantial essays that draw on postmodern philosophies of the social to explore theory's relationship with the practice of mathematics pedagogy. Unpacking Pedagogy takes new ideas seriously and engages readers in theory development. Groundbreaking in content, the book investigates how our thinking about classroom practice in general, and mathematics teaching (and learning), in particular, might be transformed. As a key resource for interrogating and understanding classroom life, the book's sophisticated analyses allow readers to build new knowledge about mathematics pedagogy. In turn, that new knowledge will provide them with the tools to engage more actively in educational criticism and to play a role in educational change.

Forging Connections in Early Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Forging Connections in Early Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Author: Virginia Kinnear
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811071535

This edited book promotes thinking, dialogue, research and theorisation on multiple ways of making connections in mathematics teaching and learning in early childhood education. The book addresses some key challenges in research, policy and practice in early childhood mathematics education. It examines diverse ways for learning experiences to connect young children to mathematics, and the importance of forging connections between mathematics and young children’s lives as key elements in their engagement with mathematics. Each chapter provides research or theoretical provocations and pedagogical implications for connecting children’s lived experiences and ways of learning in mathematics teaching. The chapters are drawn from a range of international authors who raise important ideas within the overall context of current research and consider the theoretical and practical implications of their research. As such, the book advances current thinking on mathematics teaching and learning for children in the early years from birth to eight years with an emphasis on children aged birth to 5 years. It considers the purpose and value in connecting mathematics teaching and learning to children’s lives, and provides provocations for both educators and researchers on the many under-researched and under-represented aspects of early years mathematics teaching and learning.

Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain

Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain
Author: Celia Hoyles
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2009-10-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441901469

Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain revisits the important 1985 ICMI Study on the influence of computers and informatics on mathematics and its teaching. The focus of this book, resulting from the seventeenth Study led by ICMI, is the use of digital technologies in mathematics teaching and learning in countries across the world. Specifically, it focuses on cultural diversity and how this diversity impinges on the use of digital technologies in mathematics teaching and learning. Within this focus, themes such as mathematics and mathematical practices; learning and assessing mathematics with and through digital technologies; teachers and teaching; design of learning environments and curricula; implementation of curricula and classroom practice; access, equity and socio-cultural issues; and connectivity and virtual networks for learning, serve to organize the study and bring it coherence. Providing a state-of-the-art view of the domain with regards to research, innovating practices and technological development, Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain is of interest to researchers and all those interested in the role that digital technology plays in mathematics education.

Lessons Learned from Research on Mathematics Curriculum

Lessons Learned from Research on Mathematics Curriculum
Author: Denisse R Thompson
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2024-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This volume focuses on research related to mathematics curriculum. But rather than focusing on results of research, it focuses on lessons learned about conducting research on curriculum, whether about design and development, analysis of curriculum in the form of official standards or textbook instantiations, teacher intentions related to curriculum implementation, or actual classroom enactment. For scholars interested in curriculum research, the volume offers lessons about conducting curriculum research that have been learned by others engaged in such work, including frameworks, tools, and techniques, as well as challenges and issues faced, with solutions to address them. Sharing lessons from authors of different countries strengthens the broader mathematics research community and provides insights that can help researchers make important strides forward in research on mathematics curriculum.

Mapping Equity and Quality in Mathematics Education

Mapping Equity and Quality in Mathematics Education
Author: Bill Atweh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9048198038

Concerns about quality mathematics education are often posed in terms of the types of mathematics that are worthwhile and valuable for both the student and society in general, and about how to best support students so that they can develop this mathematics. Concerns about equity are about who is excluded from the opportunity to develop quality mathematics within our current practices and systems, and about how to remove social barriers that systematically disadvantage those students. This collection of chapters summarises our learning about the achievement of both equity and quality agendas in mathematics education and to move forward the debate on their importance for the field.

Teaching And Learning Early Number

Teaching And Learning Early Number
Author: Thompson, Ian
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335234119

For all trainee and practising early years teachers and classroom assistants, this is an accessible guide to a wide range of research evidence about the teaching and learning of early number.

Supporting Early Mathematical Development

Supporting Early Mathematical Development
Author: Caroline McGrath
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010-07-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136998454

This highly topical resource offers an excellent blend of theory and practice that will enable you to deliver successful mathematical education to birth to eight year olds.

Third International Handbook of Mathematics Education

Third International Handbook of Mathematics Education
Author: M.A. (Ken) Clements
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1119
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461446848

The four sections in this Third International Handbook are concerned with: (a) social, political and cultural dimensions in mathematics education; (b) mathematics education as a field of study; (c) technology in the mathematics curriculum; and (d) international perspectives on mathematics education. These themes are taken up by 84 internationally-recognized scholars, based in 26 different nations. Each of section is structured on the basis of past, present and future aspects. The first chapter in a section provides historical perspectives (“How did we get to where we are now?”); the middle chapters in a section analyze present-day key issues and themes (“Where are we now, and what recent events have been especially significant?”); and the final chapter in a section reflects on policy matters (“Where are we going, and what should we do?”). Readership: Teachers, mathematics educators, ed.policy makers, mathematicians, graduate students, undergraduate students. Large set of authoritative, international authors.​

The Psychology of Mathematics Education

The Psychology of Mathematics Education
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087905580

This book paints an alternative and contemporary portrait of psychology within mathematics education, drawing on psychoanalytic practices and theory. Mathematics education is still a fairly new social science that began as an adjunct to the practice of mathematics in schools some forty years ago, defined by a marriage with cognitive psychology.

Video Pedagogy

Video Pedagogy
Author: Dilani S. P. Gedera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9813340096

This book conceptualises the ways in which video has created a pedagogy for current learning and teaching practices, disciplines, and environments. It brings together the concepts and practice of video as pedagogy by providing theoretical discussion and practical guidance and recommendations on the use of video in learning and teaching, drawing on a wide range of case studies including nursing education, business education, architectural education, engineering, mathematics, physical education, science education, and screen production. Part I focuses on ‘video, students and learning’ and Part II on ‘video, teachers and practice’. The book covers various perspectives on the concept and use of video in learning and teaching: developing students’ practical skills and knowledge; using video for teaching culturally sensitive topics and cultural competency; for feedback, reflection, training and professional development; making and producing videos for educational purposes, with discussion on techniques, devices, software and strategies.