Synopses & Reviews
An examination of the mathematics classroom as a social process.
Review
"...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
Review
"...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
Synopsis
Presents current research trends in mathematics education and illustrates theoretical discussion with classroom episodes. Viewing teaching and learning as social processes, the volume encourages change in mathematics education through recognition of the social character of school mathematics.
Synopsis
Presents the current state of international research on the culture of the mathematics classroom. It provides deep, multi-faceted insights into the characteristic processes of the mathematics classroom and suggests potentially fruitful modifications. The volume examines teaching and learning mathematics as the social processes of making sense and meaning, and it views mathematics as socially evolving knowledge. Basic theoretical approaches are applied to concrete classroom episodes and specific teacher education projects are reported.
Table of Contents
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.