The Culture of the Mathematics Classroom

ISBN-13: 9780521571074 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 416 str.

Falk Seeger; Ute Waschescio; Jorg Voigt

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"...the volume does an excellent job of providing the reader with a rich array of classroom examples that are interpreted using theoretically grounded analyses of teaching-learning processes." APA Review of Books

Spis treści

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Falk Seeger, Jörg Voigt and Ute Waschescio; Part I. Changing Classroom Culture: 1. Joint activity in the mathematics classrooms: a Vygotskian perspective Maria G. Bartolini Bussi; 2. Evolution of classroom culture in mathematics, teacher education and reflection on action Nadine Bednarz; 3. Reorganizing the motivational sphere of classroom culture: an activity-theoretical analysis of planning in a teacher team Yrjö Engeström; 4. The practice of teaching mathematics: experimental conditions of change Lisa Hefendehl-Hebeker; Part II. Classroom Processes: 5. Reasoning processes and the quality of reasoning Albrecht Abele; 6. A constructivist perspective on the culture of the mathematics classroom Paul Cobb and Erna Yackel; 7. The culture of the mathematics classroom: negotiating the mathematical meaning of empirical phenomena Jörg Voigt; 8. The missing link: social and cultural aspects in social constructivist theories Ute Waschescio; Part III. Epistemology and Classroom Culture: 9. The culture of the mathematics classroom and the relations between personal and public knowledge: an epistemological perspective Paul Ernest; 10. Problems of transfer of classroom mathematical knowledge to practical situations Jeff Evans; 11. Cultural perspectives on mathematics and mathematics teaching and learning Stephen Lerman; 12. Representations in the mathematics classroom: reflections and constructions Falk Seeger; 13. Mathematical understanding in classroom interaction: the interrelation of social and epistemological constraints Heinz Steinbring; Part IV. Outlook: 14. About the notion of culture in mathematics education Heinrich Bauersfeld; Author index; Subject index.