Teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms / by Jill Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Jill.

Series:

Mathematics education library ; v. 26.

Mathematics education library ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Secondary)--South Africa.

Mathematics.

Multilingual persons--Education (Secondary)--South Africa.

Multilingual persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2002.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Increasingly, teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis with the fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book, Jill Adler captures three inter-related dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms. Adler's identification and naming of the dilemma of code-switching, the dilemma of mediation, and the dilemma of transparency, arise from exploring the realities of actual classrooms, and are shaped by a perspective of teaching as a social practice. Adler provides a sharp analysis and strong theoretical grounding for her work, pulling together research related to the relationship between language and mathematics, communicating mathematics, and mathematics in bi-/multilingual settings. In so doing, she offers a direct challenge to dominant research on communication in mathematics classrooms that has `othered' the multilingual setting in its normalisation of the monolingual classroom. The `norm' is a multicultural one. Set in contemporary South Africa - a context of linguistic diversity and rapid change - this book offers a spotlight whose beam is wide enough to illuminate dilemmas at work in all mathematics classrooms.

Contents:

The Elusive Dynamics of Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms

Complexity and Diversity: The Language and Mathematics Education Terrain in South Africa

Accessing Teachers’ Tacit and Articulated Knowledge

Dilemmas in Teaching: A Prelude and Frame

Teachers Talking About Teaching: The Emergence of Dilemmas

Language(S) As Resource and the Dilemma of Code-Switching

Dilemmas of Mediation in a Multilingual Classroom: Spotlighting Mathematical Communicative Competence

The Dilema of Transparency: Language Visibility in the Multilingual Classroom

Central Dilemmas as Curriculum and Research Agenda.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-20777-9

9786610207770

0-306-47229-5

OCLC:

49852203