This disquisition presents a qualitative study that investigated the complicit nature of
theory and practice in mathematics teaching. Situated within an ecological perspective,
this research interrogates the role that theory plays as a cognizing domain in which
one's pedagogy of teaching mathematics co-exists and co-evolves. A systemic
exploration of mathematics and the teaching and learning of it is conducted and
assessed against tenets of complexity, sustainability, languaging, co-emergence,
integration, and recursion. This study reveals the impact that theoretical discourses
have on the kind of place and the forms of mathematics that are enabled and disabled
through the metaphors, perceptions of mathematical understanding, and conceptions
of time that are embodied and enacted by the teacher and her students.
This research involved the explication of the teacher's assumed theoretical and practical
patterns of teaching mathematics. The expressive forms in which this disquisition is
written provide interpretive snapshots that document the teacher's conceptual journey
from that of a heavily mechanistic, linear, and hierarchical mindset towards the
development of an ecologically coherent theoretical domain for teaching. The
classroom vignettes of the teacher, another teacher with whom she collaborated, and
the second and third grade students span a course of two and half school years. These
vignettes focus on the teacher's work in occasioning ecological forms of teaching,
learning, and mathematics in the classroom. The analysis of these episodes revealed
stark differences from that of her previous teaching practice not only in the nature of
the students' understandings, their ways of acting and being mathematical but also, in
the kinds of mathematics that arose during the lessons. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/15847 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Thom, Jennifer S. |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 44973720 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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