| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 167 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Mathematics education library ; v. 26 |
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Mathematics education library ; v. 26.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-154) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- South Africa
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Multilingual persons -- Education (Secondary) -- South Africa
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EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Mathematics.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0306472295 |
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9780306472299 |
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0792370791 |
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9780792370796 |
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0792370805 |
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9780792370802 |
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