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Amongst Mathematicians

Teaching and Learning Mathematics at University Level
Mathematics Teacher Education, Band 3

von: Elena Nardi
106,99 €
Verlag:	Springer
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	19.11.2007
ISBN/EAN:	9780387371436
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	341

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Titelbeschreibung

Amongst Mathematicians offers a unique perspective on the ways in which mathematicians perceive their students' learning, teach and reflect on their teaching practice; also on how they perceive the often fragile relationship between the communities of mathematics and mathematics education.
Elena Nardi employs two fictional, yet entirely data-grounded, characters to create a conversation on these important issues. While personas are created, the facts incorporated into their stories are based on large bodies of data including intense focused group interviews with mathematicians and extensive analyses of students' written work. This book demonstrates the pedagogical potential that lies in collaborative undergraduate mathematics education research that engages mathematicians, researchers and students. Nardi also addresses the need for action in undergraduate mathematics education and offers a discourse for reform through demonstrating the feasibility and potential of collaboration between mathematicians and mathematics education researchers.
Amongst Mathematicians is of interest to both the mathematics and mathematics education communities including university teachers, teacher educators, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Background And Context.- Method, Process And Presentation.- The Encounter With Formal Mathematical Reasoning: Conceptualising Its Significance And Enacting Its Techniques.- Mediating Mathematical Meaning Through Symbolisation, Verbalisation and Visualisation.- The Encounter With the Concept Of Function.- The Encounter With the Concept Of Limit.- Undergraduate Mathematics Pedagogy.- Fragile, yet Crucial: The Relationship Between Mathematicians and Researchers in Mathematics Education.

Autorenportrait

About the author: Elena Nardi was born in 1968. She studied mathematics (BSc) in Thessaloniki, Greece and mathematics education at Cambridge (MPhil) and Oxford (DPhil) in the UK. Her research is in various areas of mathematics education, with a particular emphasis on the psychology of mathematical learning and the teaching and learning of mathematics at the undergraduate level. She is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. She is involved with graduate supervision and with teaching mathematics education and research methods, she co-ordinates UEA's group of researchers in mathematics education and she is Joint Editor in Chief (2008-2010) of Research in Mathematics Education the new international journal of the British Society for Research into the Learning of Mathematics. Her book Amongst Mathematicians: Teaching and Learning Mathematics at University Level is due in the spring/summer of 2007 by Springer. For more information on Elena's work: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m011/

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Amongst Mathematicians offers a unique perspective on the ways in which mathematicians perceive their students' learning, teach and reflect on their teaching practice; also on how they perceive the often fragile relationship between the communities of mathematics and mathematics education.
Elena Nardi employs two fictional, yet entirely data-grounded, characters to create a conversation on these important issues. While personas are created, the facts incorporated into their stories are based on large bodies of data including intense focused group interviews with mathematicians and extensive analyses of students' written work. This book demonstrates the pedagogical potential that lies in collaborative undergraduate mathematics education research that engages mathematicians, researchers and students. Nardi also addresses the need for action in undergraduate mathematics education and offers a discourse for reform through demonstrating the feasibility and potential of collaboration between mathematicians and mathematics education researchers.
Amongst Mathematicians is of interest to both the mathematics and mathematics education communities including university teachers, teacher educators, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers.

Sonderbeitrag

Scarcity of texts in the area of undergraduate mathematics education Paucity of texts that explicitly introduce the pedagogical perspectives of mathematicians Paucity of texts that explore the pedagogical perspectives of practitioners in undergraduate mathematics education, not in the abstract, but in the context of specific and realistic learning and teaching situations Urgent need to develop a realistic, relevant, mutually engaging (practitioners and researchers) discourse on undergraduate mathematics pedagogy in order to facilitate and accelerate reform of practice Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Verkaufsargumente

Amongst Mathematicians offers a unique perspective on ways in which mathematicians perceive their students’ learning, the way mathematicians teach, and the way mathematicians reflect on their teaching practice. This is achieved by bringing fictional characters together into a conversation on these issues, wherein the mathematical content is based on large bodies of data. The book develops the analyses further and demonstrates the pedagogical potential that lies in collaborative, multi-laterally engaging research and action in undergraduate mathematics education, an area that desperately needs such action. It contributes to the discourse for reform and demonstrates the feasibility and potential of collaboration between mathematicians and researchers in mathematics education by engaging mathematicians as educational co-researchers. Further, it puts forth a non-deficit discourse on the pedagogy of undergraduate mathematics.