Perspectives on Practice and Meaning in Mathematics and Science Classrooms

A team of researchers centred at the University of Melbourne, each with particular areas of expertise, contributed their analyses of a shared collection of videotape, interview, and documentary data. The result is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Clarke, David. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
Series:Mathematics Education Library ; 25
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Table of Contents:
  • Negotiating Meanings Ớ An introduction
  • Complementary Accounts Methodology
  • Untangling Uncertainty, Negotiation and Intersubjectivity
  • Accounting for Accounts of Learning Mathematics: Reading the ZPD in Videos and Transcripts
  • Mathematical Interactions and Their Influence on Learning
  • Interest in Learning and Classroom Interactions
  • Cognitive engagement in the Mathematics Classroom
  • Measuring Values in Classroom Teaching and Learning
  • Opportunities to Learn Science? Multiple Contexts at Work in a Science Classroom
  • The Role of Gesture in Co-Constructing Mathematical Understanding
  • Learning and Teaching: From Ignorance to Understanding
  • Teaching/Learning.