Perspectives on Adults Learning Mathematics Research and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Coben, Diana. (Editor), OỚ"Donoghue, John. (Editor), Fitzsimons, Gail E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 21
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Teaching.; Assessment.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Teaching and Teacher Education.
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At a time when the importance of lifelong education is becoming recognised around the world, this is the first book to explore an important but hitherto neglected area: adult mathematics education. This book is about adults learning mathematics wherever and in whatever circumstances they do so. It b...

Table of Contents:

• Review of Research on Adults Learning Mathematics
• Review of Research on Adults Learning Mathematics
• Perspectives on Research on Adults Learning Mathematics
• Mathematics or Common Sense? Researching Ớ<U+00dc>InvisibleỚ" Mathematics through AdultsỚ" Mathematics Life Histories
• Researching AdultsỚ" Knowledge Through Piagetian Clinical Exploration Ớ the case of domestic work
• Understanding their Thinking: the tension between the Cognitive and the Affective
• Adults, Mathematics, Culture and Society
• Mathematics: Certainty in an Uncertain World?
• Ethnomathematics and Political Struggles
• Statistical Literacy: Conceptual and Instructional issues
• The roles of feelings and logic and their interaction in the solution of everyday problems
• Adults, Mathematics and Work
• Women, Mathematics and Work
• Technology, Competences and Mathematics
• Mathematics and the Vocational Education and Training System
• Perspectives in Teaching Adults Mathematics
• Algebra for Adult Students: the Student voices
• Exploration and Modelling in a University Mathematics Course: Perceptions of Adult Students
• Assessing Numeracy
• Adult Mathematics and Everyday Life: Building Bridges and Facilitating Learning Ớ<U+00dc>TransferỚ"
• Teaching ỚSnot less than maths, but moreỚ<U+00fd>: an overview of recent developments in adult numeracy teacher development in England Ớ with a sidelong glance at Australia
• Postscript: Some Thoughts on Paulo FreireỚ"s Legacy for Adults Learning Mathematics.