Partnerships in maths : parents and schools : the IMPACT Project / edited by Ruth Merttens and Jeff Vass.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merttens, Ruth.

Vass, Jeff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

IMPACT (Project).

Mathematics--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

Mathematics.

Education--Parent participation.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by authors well known in their fields, Merttens and Vass bring together diverse and different views on IMPACT of wide reading appeal. In the current economy, should teachers be regarded as producers and parents as consumers? There is no issue in education more urgent than that concerning the relationships between parents, teachers and children. The IMPACT project involves individuals concerned with formal maths education including students, teachers, parents, governors, researchers, inspectors and education offcers. Its primary aim is to bring together parents and children so they shar

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; IMPACT: Pride, Prejudice and Pedagogy: One Director's Personal Story; IMPACT and the Early Years Classroom; Maths in My Home; A Probationer's Year on IMPACT'S Probationary Year; IMPACT: A Parent's Personal Perspective; IMPACT: Does It Really Make a Difference? A Teacher's Personal View; IMPACT: A Humberside Perspective; IMPACT in the Urban Authority; IMPACT: Changes in a Support Teacher's Role; Child-Centredness, IMPACT and the National Curriculum; IMPACT at the Core of the Curriculum: The Work of a Primary Maths Adviser in the New Era

Parents in the New Era: Myth and Reality?Parental Partnership: Comfort or Conflict?; IMPACT and Cultural Diversity; Practising Mathematics Education: A Context for IMPACT; IMPACT In-Service Training: A View from the Centre of the Web; Parental Involvement from Policy to Practice: An Education Officer's View; Special Needs, Parents and the Education Reform Act; Participation, Dialogue and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities; Marginal Dialogues, Social Positions and Inequity in Rhetorical Resources; Family Math in Toronto; Including Parents: The Dynamics of Resistance; List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-135-72164-5

1-282-37347-1

9786612373473

1-135-72165-3

0-203-48553-X

9780203485538

OCLC:

191661845