Transforming Images of Mathematics/Teaching
Цена 100.55 - 112.50 USD
This project explores pre-service teacher"s experiences with learning, teaching and the nature of mathematics during an elementary mathematics curriculum course. I focus on interpreting student participants" evolving images of mathematics/teaching, to make sense of my own evolving images of mathematics/teaching. This inquiry is framed by principles of complexity, which is a post-positivist and holistic framework for interpreting social phenomena. The methodology is oriented by narrative inquiry, which is a means to notice and interpret the co-constructed storied experiences of others and self. As a result of student participant data analysis processes, an interpretive lens emerged for understanding a student"s evolving images of mathematics/teaching in terms of co-negotiating tensions, dissonances and contradictions among available narratives within a participant"s apparent experiences. My interpretations of student stories are a means of understanding my own story...