What are prospective teachers’ considerations regarding their intended practice when management interferes with mathematical learning?

Irene Biza, Elena Nardi, Gareth Joel

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Abstract

What are prospective teachers’ considerations when they make decisions in situations where classroom management interferes with mathematical learning? In this paper we present research that explores prospective teachers’ pedagogical and epistemological considerations in intended actions through their written responses to situation-specific tasks. Specifically, we introduce a type of task that addresses both mathematical learning and classroom management issues; and, we discuss the written responses of 21 prospective mathematics teachers to one of these tasks in which a student’s unease with Algebra is met with another student’s dismissive and offensive response. The analysis we present here observes a lack of balance in the participants’ responses in favour of behavioural
issues and at the expense of epistemological issues.
Original languageEnglish
Pages13-18
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2014
EventBritish Society for Research into Learning Mathematics - University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Duration: 14 Jun 2014 → …

Conference

ConferenceBritish Society for Research into Learning Mathematics
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CitySouthampton
Period14/06/14 → …

Keywords

  • teacher education
  • classroom management
  • task design
  • situation-specificity
  • MathTASK

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