Perspectives on Practice and Meaning in Mathematics and Science Classrooms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Clarke, David (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 25
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Science education.; Mathematics Education.; Science Education.; Learning & Instruction.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Negotiating Meanings — 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.