Teacher learning about probabilistic reasoning in relation to teaching it in an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) programme
I report on what teachers in an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in-service programme learned about probabilistic reasoning in relation to teaching it. I worked 'on the inside' using my practice as a site for studying teaching and learning. The teachers were from three different tow...
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Education Association of South Africa
2008-02-01
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| description | I report on what teachers in an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in-service programme learned about probabilistic reasoning in relation to teaching it. I worked 'on the inside' using my practice as a site for studying teaching and learning. The teachers were from three different towns in the Northern Cape province and had limited teaching contact time, as is the nature of ACE programmes. Findings revealed a complicated picture, where some teachers were prepared to consider influences of their intuitive probabilistic reasoning on formal probabilistic reasoning when it came to teaching. It was, however, the 'genuineness' of teacher learning which was the issue that the findings have to address. Therefore a speculative, hopeful strategy for affecting teacher learning in mathematics teacher education practice is to sustain disequilibrium between dichotomies such as formal and intuitive probabilistic reasoning, which has analogies in content and pedagogy, and subject matter and method. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2953c2f4cc8f41ddbf04df0b2d21efe72022-12-22T00:22:55ZengEducation Association of South AfricaSouth African Journal of Education0256-01002076-34332008-02-012811938Teacher learning about probabilistic reasoning in relation to teaching it in an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) programmeFaaiz GierdienI report on what teachers in an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in-service programme learned about probabilistic reasoning in relation to teaching it. I worked 'on the inside' using my practice as a site for studying teaching and learning. The teachers were from three different towns in the Northern Cape province and had limited teaching contact time, as is the nature of ACE programmes. Findings revealed a complicated picture, where some teachers were prepared to consider influences of their intuitive probabilistic reasoning on formal probabilistic reasoning when it came to teaching. It was, however, the 'genuineness' of teacher learning which was the issue that the findings have to address. Therefore a speculative, hopeful strategy for affecting teacher learning in mathematics teacher education practice is to sustain disequilibrium between dichotomies such as formal and intuitive probabilistic reasoning, which has analogies in content and pedagogy, and subject matter and method.http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0256-01002008000100002 |
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| title | Teacher learning about probabilistic reasoning in relation to teaching it in an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) programme |
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| title_short | Teacher learning about probabilistic reasoning in relation to teaching it in an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) programme |
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