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Primary Mathematics and the Developing Professional: Multiple Perspectives on Attainment in Numeracy - Hardcover

 
9781402019142: Primary Mathematics and the Developing Professional: Multiple Perspectives on Attainment in Numeracy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1402019149 ISBN 13: 9781402019142
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2004

Synopsis

This book develops a framework for discussing primary school teachers making changes to their understandings and practices. The framework has been developed to allow the complexity of external and internal aspects of change processes to be explored in a holistic way. External factors influencing teachers include increased specification of the curriculum, changing demands for styles of pedagogy and a rhetoric of Lifelong Learning. Such factors have to be looked at in relation to individual teacher's internal responses to mathematics. For many primary school teachers mathematics is a subject that causes concern; its place within their personal biographies may be uncomfortable and replete with memories of confusion, pain and limited success. Professional understandings of mathematics build upon the understandings from personal histories. Discussing teacher change within the interplay of the external and internal is inherently difficult. Responses to this difficulty have tended to take the form of simplifying the task and dealing with the external separately from the internal.

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Synopsis

This book develops a framework for discussing primary school teachers making changes to their understandings and practices. The framework has been developed to allow the complexity of external and internal aspects of change processes to be explored in a holistic way. External factors influencing teachers include increased specification of the curriculum, changing demands for styles of pedagogy and a rhetoric of Lifelong Learning. Such factors have to be looked at in relation to individual teacher's internal responses to mathematics. For many primary school teachers mathematics is a subject that causes concern; its place within their personal biographies may be uncomfortable and replete with memories of confusion, pain and limited success. Professional understandings of mathematics build upon the understandings from personal histories. Discussing teacher change within the interplay of the external and internal is inherently difficult. Responses to this difficulty have tended to take the form of simplifying the task and dealing with the external separately from the internal.

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Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1402019149
ISBN 13 
9781402019142
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
322
Editor
Millett Alison, Brown Margaret, Askew Mike