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Opening the Research Text Elizabeth de Freitas

Opening the Research Text By Elizabeth de Freitas

Opening the Research Text by Elizabeth de Freitas


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An innovative contribution to educational research is to be found in this book. The book addresses the need to generate texts that assist educators and future educators in taking up new research and making sense of it. The book will appeal to teacher educators, student teachers, and mathematics education researchers alike.

Opening the Research Text Summary

Opening the Research Text: Critical Insights and In(ter)ventions into Mathematics Education by Elizabeth de Freitas

An innovative contribution to educational research is to be found in this book. The book addresses the need to generate texts that assist educators and future educators in taking up new research and making sense of it. It offers unique approaches to interpreting research within the mathematics education field and takes its place in a growing set of resources. The book will appeal to teacher educators, student teachers, and mathematics education researchers alike.

About Elizabeth de Freitas

Elizabeth de Freitas is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Prince Edward Island. She teaches elementary, intermediate and secondary Mathematics methods courses. She also teaches courses on Culture and Society and Postmodern Research Theory to Master of Education students. She coordinates a Narrative Group for graduate students using various narrative forms of inquiry. Elizabeth's current research interest include: mathematics teacher identity, critical pedagogy, mathematical discourse and writing, and issues in research methodology.

Kathleen Nolan is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. She teaches undergraduate courses in mathematics and science curriculum in both elementary and secondary teacher education programs, as well as graduate courses in curriculum theory. Kathleen's current research interests include teacher education, mathematics and science epistemology, and critical and narrative research methodologies.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Research Text: Mathematics education under cross-examination.- Best evidence research redefined in mathematics education.- Mathematics and Mathematics Education-Deconstructing the Math Wars.- Opening the mathematics text: What does it say?.- Comforting Narratives of Compliance: Psychoanalytic perspectives on new teacher responses to mathematics policy reform.- Power Distribution in the Network of Mathematics Education Practices.- Mathematics education in a knowledge market: Developing functional and critical competencies.- Building Political Relationships with Students: An aspect of social justice pedagogy.- Afterword: Bootleg Mathematics.

Additional information

NLS9781441945327
9780534954109
0534954103
Opening the Research Text: Critical Insights and In(ter)ventions into Mathematics Education by Elizabeth de Freitas
New
Paperback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2010-11-25
260
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