The central role of the teacher - even in student centred pedagogies

Geoffrey Wake; O Figueras; S Alatorre; T Rojano; A Sepulveda

The central role of the teacher - even in student centred pedagogies

Geoffrey Wake
, O Figueras (Editor)
, S Alatorre (Editor)
, T Rojano (Editor)
, A Sepulveda (Editor)

Manchester Institute of Education

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

We describe a case study of an unusually ???student-centred??? mathematics teacher whose students construct unusual ??? and positive ??? mathematical dispositions and identities. We draw on a self-report ???teacher-centred pedagogic practices??? scale, interview and classroom lesson analyses to identify her pedagogic practice and her reflections on these. Our analysis distinguishes ???mathematical??? and ???social??? strands in her narrative within lessons which ensure that whilst her practices are found to be engaging and ensure agency and choice she maintains firm control over the ???mathematical narrative???. In this sense her practice appears contradictory: Activity Theory suggests this as an objective contradiction between the learners??? knowledge and the mathematical reformulation of it that the teacher mediates.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Joint meeting of PME32 and PME-NA XXX
Editors	O Figueras, S Alatorre, T Rojano, A Sepulveda
Place of Publication	Mexico: Cinestav
Publisher	Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN
Publication status	Published - Jul 2008
Event	Joint Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (32) and PME-North America XXX - Morelia, Mexico Duration: 17 Jul 2008 → 21 Jul 2008

Conference

Conference	Joint Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (32) and PME-North America XXX
City	Morelia, Mexico
Period	17/07/08 → 21/07/08

Keywords

Pedagogy, narrative, socio-cultural theory

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Wake, G, Figueras, O (ed.), Alatorre, S (ed.), Rojano, T (ed.) & Sepulveda, A (ed.) 2008, The central role of the teacher - even in student centred pedagogies. in O Figueras, S Alatorre, T Rojano & A Sepulveda (eds), Proceedings of the Joint meeting of PME32 and PME-NA XXX. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico: Cinestav, Joint Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (32) and PME-North America XXX, Morelia, Mexico, 17/07/08.

The central role of the teacher - even in student centred pedagogies. / Wake, Geoffrey; Figueras, O (Editor); Alatorre, S (Editor) et al.
Proceedings of the Joint meeting of PME32 and PME-NA XXX. ed. / O Figueras; S Alatorre; T Rojano; A Sepulveda. Mexico: Cinestav: Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, 2008.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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