Paul Betts

Transforming Images of Mathematics/Teaching

A Study of Pre-service Teachers/Teaching

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This project explores pre-service teacher's experiences with learning, teaching and the nature of mathematics during an elementary mathematics curriculum course. I focus on interpreting student participants' evolving images of mathematics/teaching, to make sense of my own evolving images of mathematics/teaching. This inquiry is framed by principles of complexity, which is a post-positivist and holistic framework for interpreting social phenomena. The methodology is oriented by narrative inquiry, which is a means to notice and interpret the co-constructed storied experiences of others and self. As a result of student participant data analysis processes, an interpretive lens emerged for understanding a student's evolving images of mathematics/teaching in terms of co-negotiating tensions, dissonances and contradictions among available narratives within a participant's apparent experiences. My interpretations of student stories are a means of understanding my own story as a negotiation of competing narratives. The processes and products of this inquiry may provide insight into the complex question of teachers changing and changing teachers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dictus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9783844398670
• ISBN-10: 3844398678
• Artikelnr.: 33424641

Autorenporträt

Paul Betts is Associate Professor aan de Universiteit van Winnipeg. Zijn onderzoeksinteresses betreffen meestal de aard van de wiskunde of het wiskundeonderwijs. Een actuele onderzoeksagenda beschouwt de lerarenopleiding als een onderdeel van de persoonlijke en professionele leertrajecten van beginnende en toekomstige leraren.