By Elena Nardi (auth.)
Amongst Mathematicians bargains a distinct viewpoint at the ways that mathematicians understand their scholars' studying, train and think of their instructing perform; additionally on how they understand the usually fragile dating among the groups of arithmetic and arithmetic education.
Elena Nardi employs fictional, but totally data-grounded, characters to create a talk on those very important concerns. whereas personas are created, the proof included into their tales are according to huge our bodies of knowledge together with excessive centred crew interviews with mathematicians and vast analyses of scholars' written paintings. This e-book demonstrates the pedagogical power that lies in collaborative undergraduate arithmetic schooling learn that engages mathematicians, researchers and scholars. Nardi additionally addresses the necessity for motion in undergraduate arithmetic schooling and gives a discourse for reform via demonstrating the feasibility and strength of collaboration among mathematicians and arithmetic schooling researchers.
Amongst Mathematicians is of curiosity to either the maths and arithmetic schooling groups together with college lecturers, instructor educators, undergraduate and graduate scholars, and researchers.
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The process of constructing the Summaries is recorded in the diary as follows: ‘… how to construct the summary – maps: I need an episode breakdown. g. Limits, put all on the floor, read map, see clusters, reorganize material accordingly, title them…’ Diary entry June 27th, 2005 At that stage I had also collected the material that I had earlier labelled ‘Spin-Off Episodes’ (see March 17th diary entry quoted above) under the heading Other Matters and was toying with ideas on how to handle this material from now on.
Lakatos, for example, aimed at demonstrating his view of the creative processes through which mathematics comes to be − and on the way, also inspired by Pólya (1945), he challenged our perception of how it is learnt and therefore how it ought to be taught. Plato employed the dialogic format, partly, as a platform to introduce us to the character of his teacher and mentor Socrates (and in his later works his own ideas as transformed by, and gradually independently of, Socrates’ teaching). My aim here is to employ the dialogic format as a platform to introduce the character of M and, through his exchanges with the auxiliary, constantly prompting character of RME, showcase the rich canvas of perspectives on learning and teaching that have emerged from my collaborative work with mathematicians.
There is another sense parallel to this one though and one that is perhaps a bit closer to the one Bruner directly refers to in the above. Bruner talked about the stories children, for example, construct in order to make sense of the mathematics they are taught in school. Analogously the mathematicians participating in the studies I draw on here have their own ‘stories’, their own interpretive frames for making sense of things like their students’ learning (in Chapters 3 – 6), their own pedagogical practices (in Chapter 7), the way they relate to mathematics educators and educational researchers (in Chapter 8) etc..