Conceptualising Resources as a Theme for Teacher Education |
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| Authors: | Jill Adler |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, P O Wits, 2050, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | In this report, I examine resources and their use in school mathematics. I do so from the perspective of mathematics teacher
education and with a view to the practice of school mathematics. I argue that the effectiveness of resources for mathematical
learning lies in their use, that is, in the classroom teaching and learning context. The argument pivots on the concepts of
school mathematics as a hybrid practice and on the transparency of resources in use. These concepts are elaborated by examples
of resource use within an in-service teacher education research project in South Africa. I propose that mathematics teacher
education needs to focus more attention on resources, on what they are and how they work as an extension of the teacher in
school mathematics practice. In so doing, the report provides a language with which mathematics teacher educators and mathematics
teachers can investigate teachers' use of resources to support mathematical learning in particular and diverse contexts.
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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