Multiple Perspectives on Mathematics Teaching and Learning

by Jo Boaler

Overview

Multiple Perspectives on Mathematics Teaching and Learning offers a collection of chapters that take a new look at mathematics education. Leading authors, such as Deborah Ball, Paul Cobb, Jim Greeno, Stephen Lerman, and Michael Apple, draw from a range of perspectives in their analyses of mathematics teaching and learning. They address such practical problems as: the design of teaching and research that acknowledges the social nature of learning, maximizing the impact of teacher education programs, increasing the learning opportunities of students working in groups, and ameliorating the impact of male domination in mixed classrooms.

These practical insights are combined with important advances in theory. Several of the authors address the nature of learning and teaching, including the ways in which theories and practices of mathematics education recognize learning as simultaneously social and individual. The issues addressed include teaching practices, equity, language, assessment, group work and the broader political context of mathematics reform. The contributors variously employ sociological, anthropological, psychological, sociocultural, political, and mathematical perspectives to produce powerful analyses of mathematics teaching and learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567505351
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/30/2000
Series:	International Perspectives on Mathematics Education Series , #1
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

JO BOALER is Assistant Professor of mathematics education at Stanford University. She is a former secondary school teacher of mathematics. She has also worked as the deputy director of a national assessment project in the UK, researching and developing assessments for students across the country. She is author of the book Experiencing School Mathematics. Her research interests include mathematics teaching approaches, assessment and equity. She is currently the PI of a NSF project investigating the relationship between mathematics teaching, learning, and curriculum approach.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Intricacies of Knowledge, Practice, and Theory by Jo Boaler
The Social Turn in Mathematics Education Research by Stephen Lerman
The Importance of a Situated View of Learning to the Design of Research and Instruction by Paul Cobb
Interweaving Content and Pedagogy in Teaching and Learning to Teach: Knowing and Using Mathematics by Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Hyman Bass
Who Counts What As Math? Emergent and Assigned Mathematics Problems in a Project-Based Classroom by Reed Stevens
Effects of Dominant and Subordinate Masculinities on Interactions in a Collaborative Learning Classroom by Mary Barnes
Identity, Agency, and Knowing in Mathematics Worlds by Jo Boaler and James G. Greeno
"Cracking the Code" of Mathematics Classrooms: School Success As a Function of Linguistic, Social, and Cultural Background by Robyn Zevenbergen
Better Assessment in Mathematics Education? A Social Perspective by Candia Morgan
Mathematics Reform Through Conservative Modernization? Standards, Markets, and Inequality in Education by Michael W. Apple
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Editorial Reviews

A collection of ten chapters that take a new look at mathematics education. The contributors address such practical problems as the design of teaching and research that acknowledges the social nature of learning, maximizing the impact of teacher education programs, increasing the learning opportunities of students working in groups, and ameliorating the impact of male domination in mixed classrooms. Several of the chapters address the nature of learning and teaching, and the ways in which theories and practices of mathematics education recognize learning as simultaneously social and individual. Other issues include teaching practices, equity, language, assessment, group work and the broader political context of mathematics reform. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

This valuable resource is recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and practitioners.” —Choice

“The contributors variously employ sociological, anthropological, psychological, sociocultural, political, and mathematical perspectives to produce powerful analyses of mathematics teaching and learning.” —Adolescence

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