The Culture of the Mathematics Classroom
Published on 13. August 1998
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-521-57107-4 (ISBN)
Description
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. The volume is divided into three sections, reporting findings gained both in research and in practice. The first 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 the classroom culture. As an examination of the social nature of mathematical teaching and learning, the volume should appeal both to educational psychologists and to cultural and social anthropologists and sociologists. The editors have compiled a volume that explores not only the acquisition of mathematical knowledge but the communal character of such knowledge as well.
Reviews / Votes
"...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 BooksMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
14 Tables, unspecified; 43 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
823 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-57107-4 (9780521571074)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Falk Seeger, Joerg 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 Yrjoe Engestroem; 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 Joerg 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.