Research for Educational Change

Transforming researchers' insights into improvement in mathematics teaching and learning

By: Jill Adler (Editor), Anna Sfard (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 July 2016

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280 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.75

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$388.18

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Research for Educational Change presents ways in which educational research can fulfil its commitments to educational practice. Focussing its discussion within the context of mathematics education, it argues that while research-generated insights can have beneficial effects on learning and teaching, the question of how these effects are to be generated and sustained is far from evident. The question of how to turn research into educational improvement is discussed here in the context of learning and teaching hindered by poverty and social injustice.

In the first part of the book, four teams of researchers use different methodologies while analysing the same corpus of data, collected in a South African mathematics classroom. In the second part, each of these teams makes a specific proposal about what can be done and how so that its research-generated insights have a tangible, beneficial impact on what is happening in mathematical classrooms. Combining two discourses - that of researchers speaking to one another, and that of researchers communicating their insights to those responsible for educational practice - the book deals with the perenial question of communication between those who study educational processes and those who are directly responsible for teacher education, educational research and classroom practices.

This book will be key reading for postgraduates, researchers and academics in education and particularly in the areas of mathematics education, education research, teacher education and classroom practice. It will also appeal to teacher educators, practitioners and undergraduate students interested in educational research.

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"The key strength of the book is its systematic inquiry into how teaching and learning crystallizes. More than that, the book takes the findings from the inquiry to inform what might be done to improve classroom experiences. Illuminating and building on the analyses of the lesson event, and with genuine respect for the efforts of the teacher (Mr T), are practical proposals for pedagogical change."- Margaret Walshaw,Educational Studies in Mathematics, March 2017

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