J. B. Adler

Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780306472299
• Artikelnr.: 43604639

Inhaltsangabe

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.