Complex Conversations : Reflections on Teaching a Mathematics Education Course

ISBN-13: 9783639180374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Sarah Smitherman Pratt

Opis

Teaching and learning involve reflexive actions andshould be chosen thoughtfully and deliberately, notbecause someone has decided what works. In thisstudy, I examine how complex conversations mightoffer pedagogical and theoretical (re)considerationsin a teacher education course on mathematics. The twomain research questions I explore are: 1) How can complex conversations those involvingmultiple perspectives aid pre-service teachers inbecoming reflective practitioners, effectiveprofessionals, and inquiring pedagogues? 2) How am I transformed as I experience and reflecton participation in these complex conversations? Complex conversations encourage a different form ofinteraction, a different way of imagining the world.May mathematics education be(come) a field of studythat allows for differences, multiple perspectives,and authentic questions, where ideas do not convergeor diverge but co-emerge

O autorze

Sarah Smitherman Pratt earned a B.S. from Texas A&M University,
M.A. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. She then became
an assistant professor in mathematics education at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently works at Louisiana
Resource Center for in Baton Rouge, LA, where she resides with
her husband and daughter.