Opportunities for learning given to prospective mathematics teachers: between ritual and explorative instruction

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education - Tập 19 - Trang 547-574 - 2015
Einat Heyd-Metzuyanim1, Michal Tabach2, Talli Nachlieli3
1The Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
2Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel
3Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel

Tóm tắt

The mathematics education field, including prospective teacher education program, has seen a continuous effort to change teaching practices to be more cognitively demanding, conceptually oriented and student centred. Our goal in this study was to examine how certain underlying assumptions about mathematical learning, as reflected in a skilled instructor’s discourse, align with opportunities to learn. The data included a set of fully transcribed 11 lessons from an introductory algebra course. The method of analysis was built upon the communicational (commognitive) framework and included discerning between the instructor’s mathematizing and identifying talk. This framework was extended to quantify the instructor’s identifying talk over the whole set of lessons. Our findings showed that at the surface level, the instruction in the class seemed to align with “explorative” goals. On a deeper level, however, it was more aligned with “ritual” goals that are concerned with producing narratives about people, not about mathematics.

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