Unpacking pedagogy : new perspectives for mathematics classrooms / edited by Margaret Walshaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walshaw, Margaret, editor.

Series:

International perspectives on mathematics education, 1530-3993.

International perspectives on mathematics education: cognition, equity, & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Mathematics.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 281 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume represents a serious attempt to understand what it is that structures the pedagogical experience. In that attempt there are two main objectives. One is a theoretical interest that involves examining the issue of the subjectivity of the teacher and exploring how intersubjective negotiations shape the production of classroom practice. A second objective is to apply these understandings to the production of mathematical knowledge and to the construction of identities in actual mathematics classrooms. To that end book contains substantial essays that draw on postmodern philosophies of the social to explore theory's relationship with the practice of mathematics pedagogy.Unpacking Pedagogy takes new ideas seriously and engages readers in theory development. Groundbreaking in content, the book investigates how our thinking about classroom practice in general, and mathematics teaching (and learning), in particular, might be transformed. As a key resource for interrogating and understanding classroom life, the book's sophisticated analyses allow readers to build new knowledge about mathematics pedagogy. In turn, that new knowledge will provide them with the tools to engage more actively in educational criticism and to play a role in educational change.

Contents:

Series editors' foreword

Acknowledgments. Introduction: New perspectives on pedagogy for mathematics classrooms / Margaret Walshaw

Section I. Psychoanalytic approaches to pedagogy

Chapter 1. Teachers and curriculum change: Working to get it right / Una Hanley

Chapter 2. What does it mean to characterize mathematics as masculine? / Tamara Bibby

Chapter 3. Diamonds in a skull: Unpacking pedagogy with beginning teachers / Tony Cotton with Corinthia Bell, Lauren Betts, Rachel Cartwright, Rachael Dean, Amy Howard, Katie Pidgeon, Joanna Thompson, Laura Willis, Deborah Silberstein, Hannah Stonehouse, Suzannah West, and Jamie Wilcox

Chapter 4. The good mathematics teacher: Standardized mathematics tests, teacher identity, and pedagogy / Fiona Walls

Section II. Discursive approaches to pedagogy

Chapter 5. Fragile learning in the mathematics classroom: How mathematics lessons are not just for learning mathematics / Diana Stentoft and Paola Valero

Chapter 6. Learning to teach: Powerful practices at work during the practicum / Margaret Walshaw

Chapter 7. Regulating mathematics classroom discourse: Text, context, and intertextuality / Elizabeth de Freitas

Chapter 8. Playing the field(s) of mathematics education: A teacher educator's journey into pedagogical and paradoxical possibilities / Kathleen Nolan

Section III. Integrated approaches to pedagogy

Chapter 9. Life in mathematics: Evolutionary perspectives on subject matter / Moshe Renert and Brent Davis

Chapter 10. Deconstructing discourses in a mathematics education course: Teachers reflecting differently / David Stinson and Ginny Powell

Chapter 11. Learning through digital technologies / Nigel Calder and Tony Brown

Chapter 12. The paradox and politics of disadvantage: Narrativizing critical moments of discourse and pedagogy / Dalene Swanson

About the contributors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-60752-429-5