Mathematics Education: Exploring the Culture of Learning

(Researching Mathematics Learning)
Barbara Allen e Sue Johnston-Wilder

RoutledgeFalmer | 2003 | 256 páginas |  rar - PDF | 1,3 Mb


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Mathematics Education identifies some of the most significant issues in mathematics education today. Pulling together relevant articles from authors well-known in their fields of study, the book addresses topical issues such as:

• gender

• equity

• attitude

• teacher belief and knowledge

• community of practice

• autonomy and agency

• assessment

• technology.

The subject is dealt with in three parts: culture of the mathematics classroom, communication in mathematics classrooms and pupils' and teachers' perceptions.

Students on postgraduate courses in mathematics education will find this book a valuable resource. Students on BEd and PGCE courses will also find this a useful source of reference as will teachers of mathematics, mentors and advisers.

Contents
Introduction: issues in researching mathematics learning 1
BARBARA ALLEN AND SUE JOHNSTON-WILDER
SECTION 1
Culture of the mathematics classroom – including equity and social justice 7
1 Images of mathematics, values and gender: a philosophical perspective 11
PAUL ERNEST
2 Towards a sociology of learning in primary schools 26
ANDREW POLLARD
3 Learners as authors in the mathematics classroom 43
HILARY POVEY AND LEONE BURTON WITH CORINNE ANGIER AND MARK BOYLAN
4 Paradigmatic conflicts in informal mathematics assessment as sources of social inequity 57
ANNE WATSON
5 Constructing the ‘legitimate’ goal of a ‘realistic’ maths item: a comparison of 10–11- and 13–14-year olds 69
BARRY COOPER AND MÁIRÉAD DUNNE
6 Establishing a community of practice in a secondary mathematics classroom 91
MERRILYN GOOS, PETER GALBRAITH AND PETER RENSHAW
SECTION 2
Communication in mathematics classrooms 117
7 Mathematics, social class and linguistic capital: an analysis of mathematics classroom interactions 119
ROBYN ZEVENBERGEN
8 What is the role of diagrams in communication of mathematical activity? 134
CANDIA MORGAN
9 ‘The whisperers’: rival classroom discourses and inquiry mathematics 146
JENNY HOUSSART
10 Steering between skills and creativity: a role for the computer? 159
CELIA HOYLES
SECTION 3
Pupils’ and teachers’ perceptions 173
11 The relationship of teachers’ conceptions of mathematics and mathematics teaching to instructional practice 175
ALBA GONZALEZ THOMPSON
12 Setting, social class and survival of the quickest 195
JO BOALER
13 ‘I’ll be a nothing’: structure, agency and the construction of identity through assessment 219
DIANE REAY AND DYLAN WILIAM
14 Pupils’ perspectives on learning mathematics 233
BARBARA ALLEN
Index 243