Introduction.- An historical overview of early education policy and pedagogy: Global perspectives and particular examples.- Very Young Children.- Playing with patterns - Lessons learned from a learning study with toddlers.- Creating a mathematics environment.- Learning and teaching.- What is the difference? Young children learning mathematics through problem solving.- Children´s Play as…
Introduction -- Challenges and opportunities for second language learners in undergraduate mathematics -- Mathematics in the hands of deaf learners and blind learners: visual-gestural-somatic means of doing and expressing -- Challenging deficit perspectives: student agency in multilingual mathematics classrooms -- Language diversity in mathematics teacher education: challenges across three coun…
Chapter 1 Mathematics at the Margins -- Chapter 2 Being at the margins ≠ being unsuccessful at mathematics -- Chapter 3 Mathematics and marginality -- Chapter 4 Marginality and mathematics -- Chapter 5 Crossing the divide -- Chapter 6 Redressing the imbalance -- Chapter 7 Maintaining the momentum.This book reports the impact a four-year longitudinal study (Representations, Oral Language and E…
Theories and Paradigms -- Identifying Hypermedia Browsing Strategies -- Simulations as Mental Tools for Network-Based Group Learning -- E-training or E-learning? -- Pedagogical Models in Network-Based Education -- The Effects of IT-Based Training on Employees Uptake of New Technologies in the Work-Place -- Focus Group Report: Mobility and Education -- Programs and Curricula -- ‘Anybody Out Th…
I. Different Theoretical Views on Mass Collaboration -- A History of Mass Collaboration.- Social and Systemic Epistemology -- Mass Collaboration as Co-Evolution between Cognitive and Social Systems -- Cultures of Participation -- From Distributed Cognition to Collective Intelligence -- II. Tools and Environments for Mass Collaboration -- Collective Knowledge in Tagging Environments -- Particip…
Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence of why adults do or do not participate in adult lifelong learning activities and focuses on the…
Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing -- Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing -- Studies in Learning to Write -- Emergent Writing in Kindergarten and the Emergence of the Alphabetic Principle -- Looking at Reading and Writing Through Language -- Rewriting to Introduce Punctuation in the Second Grade: A Didactic Approach -- Contextual Factors Enhancing Cognitive and Metacognitive Acti…
1. Introduction -- 2. Survey on state-of-the-art -- 3. Summary and looking ahead -- 4. Reference list.Open AccessThis book presents a synopsis of six emerging themes in adult mathematics/numeracy and a critical discussion of recent developments in terms of policies, provisions, and the emerging challenges, paradoxes and tensions. It also offers an extensive review of the literature adult mathem…
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessThis survey provides an overview of German meta-discourse on theories and mathematics education as a scientific discipline, from the 1970s to the 1990s. Two theory strands are offered: a semiotic view related to Peirce and Wittgenstein (presente…
Introduction -- 1 Advancing psychological studies on Asian learners: Continuing the legacy of David A. Watkins -- 2 A journey through David Watkins's research and contribution to cross-cultural psychology -- Part 1: Beliefs about learning and schooling -- 3 The indispensable role of culture in shaping children's learning beliefs -- 4 Understanding of students' beliefs about knowledge and learni…