Transitions Between Contexts of Mathematical Practices

by Abreu, Guida De; Bishop, Alan J.; Presmeg, Norma C.

• ISBN13: 9780792371854
• ISBN10: 0792371852
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book focuses attention on mathematics learners in transition and on their practices in different contexts; on the institutional and socio-cultural framing of the transition processes involved; and on the communication and negotiation of mathematical meanings during transition. The book offers both empirical studies and significant theoretical reflections from a socio-cultural perspective, with the aim of providing the bases for the development of more socially and culturally responsive mathematics learning environments. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of mathematics education, cultural psychology, multicultural education, immigrant and indigenous education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Editors' Prelude: Researching mathematics learning: the need for a new approach	1	(170)
Mathematics learners in transition	7	(16)
Guida de Abreu
Alan Bishop
Norma Presmeg
Immigrant children learning mathematics in mainstream schools	23	(30)
Nuria Gorgorio
Nuria Planas
Xavier Vilella
The transition experience of immigrant secondary school students: dilemmas and decisions	53	(28)
Alan Bishop
Thinking about mathematical learning with Cabo Verde Ardinas	81	(42)
Madalena Santos
Joao Filipe Matos
Exploring ways parents participate in their children's school mathematical learning: cases studies in multiethnic primary schools	123	(26)
Guida de Abreu
Tony Cline
Tatheer Shamsi
Transitions between home and school mathematics: rays of hope amidst the passing clouds	149	(22)
Marta Civil
Rosi Andrade
Editors' Interlude: Theoretical orientations to transitions	171	(58)
Towards a cultural psychology perspective on transitions between contexts of mathematical practices	173	(20)
Guida de Abreu
Mathematical acculturation, cultural conflicts, and transition	193	(20)
Alan Bishop
Shifts in meaning during transitions	213	(16)
Norma Presmeg
Editors' Postlude: The sociocultural mediation of transition	229	(10)
Author Index	239	(2)
Subject Index	241