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tandfonline.com – A look over students’ shoulders when learning mathematics in home-schooling

Posted on by Troels Gannerup Christensen - Læst 14 gange

tandfonline.com har udgivet en rapport under søgningen “Teacher Education Mathematics”: Abstract This study aims to uncover some key elements of successful home-learning of mathematics, based on students’ perceptions, during the COVID-19 pandemic and offer recommendations for mathematics learning beyond the crisis. Throughout our work, we aimed to examine students’ reflections on mathematics learning and learning environments that assisted their ease of transition from in-school face-to-face learning to home-schooling during the COVID-19 isolation. In this paper, we will present how mathematics learning has changed for upper secondary school students in Austria and outline students’ perspectives in relation to their new learning experiences during the period of school closures. Through the use of case study principles enhanced by some design-based research approaches, we were able to illustrate that (a) familiarity with the… Continue Reading →

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tandfonline.com – Nurturing learning or encouraging dependency? Teacher constructions of students in lower attainment groups in English secondary schools

Posted on by Troels Gannerup Christensen - Læst 20 gange

tandfonline.com har udgivet en rapport under søgningen “Teacher Education Mathematics”: Abstract Abstract ‘Ability’ or attainment grouping can introduce an additional label that influences teachers’ expectations of students in specific attainment groups. This paper is based on a survey of 597 teachers across 82 schools and 34 teacher interviews in 10 schools undertaken as part of a large-scale mixed-methods study in England. The paper focuses on English and mathematics teachers’ expectations of secondary school students in lower attainment groups, and explores how low-attaining students are constructed as learners who benefit from specific approaches to learning justified through discourses of nurturing and protection. The authors argue that the adoption of different pedagogical approaches for groups of low-attaining learners to nurture them may in some cases be fostering dependency on teachers and cap… Continue Reading →