Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Adler, Jill (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Σειρά: Mathematics Education Library ; 26
• Θέματα: Education.; Language and education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Language Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

 Increasingly, teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis with the fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book, Jill Adler captures three inter-related dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms. Adler's identification and naming of the dilemma of code-switching, the dilemma of mediation, and the dilemma of transparency, arise from exploring the realities of actual classrooms, and are shaped by a perspective of teaching as a social practice. Adler provides a sharp analysis and strong theoretical grounding for her work, pulling together research related to the relationship between language and mathematics, communicating mathematics, and mathematics in bi-/multilingual settings. In so doing, she offers a direct challenge to dominant research on communication in mathematics classrooms that has `othered' the multilingual setting in its normalisation of the monolingual classroom. The `norm' is a multicultural one. Set in contemporary South Africa - a context of linguistic diversity and rapid change - this book offers a spotlight whose beam is wide enough to illuminate dilemmas at work in all mathematics classrooms. 

 The Elusive Dynamics of Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms -- Complexity and Diversity: The Language and Mathematics Education Terrain in South Africa -- Accessing Teachers’ Tacit and Articulated Knowledge -- Dilemmas in Teaching: A Prelude and Frame -- Teachers Talking About Teaching: The Emergence of Dilemmas -- Language(S) As Resource and the Dilemma of Code-Switching -- Dilemmas of Mediation in a Multilingual Classroom: Spotlighting Mathematical Communicative Competence -- The Dilema of Transparency: Language Visibility in the Multilingual Classroom -- Central Dilemmas as Curriculum and Research Agenda.