Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms

ISBN-13: 9780792370802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 172 str.

J. B. Adler

Opis

Increasingly, teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis with the fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book, Jill Adler captures three inter-related dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms. Adler's identification and naming of the dilemma of code-switching, the dilemma of mediation, and the dilemma of transparency, arise from exploring the realities of actual classrooms, and are shaped by a perspective of teaching as a social practice. Adler provides a sharp analysis and strong theoretical grounding for her work, pulling together research related to the relationship between language and mathematics, communicating mathematics, and mathematics in bi-/multilingual settings. In so doing, she offers a direct challenge to dominant research on communication in mathematics classrooms that has othered' the multilingual setting in its normalisation of the monolingual classroom. The norm' is a multicultural one. Set in contemporary South Africa - a context of linguistic diversity and rapid change - this book offers a spotlight whose beam is wide enough to illuminate dilemmas at work in all mathematics classrooms.

Spis treści

Foreword; D. Pimm. Acknowledgements. A Note on Terminology. 1. The Elusive Dynamics of Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms. 2. Complexity and Diversity: The Language and Mathematics Education Terrain in South Africa. 3. Accessing Teachers' Tacit and Articulated Knowledge. 4. Dilemmas in Teaching: A Prelude and Frame. 5. Teachers Talking about Teaching: The Emergence of Dilemmas. 6. Language(s) as Resource and the Dilemma of Code-Switching. 7. Dilemmas of Mediation in a 8. The Dilemma of Transparency: Language Visibility in the Multilingual Classroom. 9. Central Dilemmas as Curriculum and Research Agenda. Endnotes. References. Subject Index. Index of Names. Appendices.