Increasingly, teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis with the fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book, Jill Adler captures three inter-related dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms. Adler's identification and naming of the , and , arise from exploring the realities of actual classrooms, and are shaped by a perspective of teaching as a social practice.
Adler provides a sharp analysis and strong theoretical grounding for her work, pulling together research related to the relationship between language and mathematics, communicating mathematics, and mathematics in bi-/multilingual settings. In so doing, she offers a direct challenge to dominant research on communication in mathematics classrooms that has `othered' the multilingual setting in its normalisation of the monolingual classroom. The `norm' is a multicultural one. Set in contemporary South Africa - a context of linguistic diversity and rapid change - this book offers a spotlight whose beam is wide enough to illuminate dilemmas at work in all mathematics classrooms.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780792370796
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-7923-7079-6
- Verlag: Springer
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.2001
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2001
- Serie: Mathematics Education Library
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 1000 g
- Seiten: 172
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
