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“It’s like they’re speaking a different language!” Investigating an accidental resistance to school mathematics reform

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    “It’s like they’re speaking a different language!” Investigating an accidental resistance to school mathematics reform

    Speakers: Professor Brent Davis (University of Calgary)
    Date: 15 Feb 2018
    Venue: Donald MacIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
    Time: 14:15 - 16:00
    Type: Research seminar Fee: Free

    In this seminar Professor Davis will examine multiple distinct-but-internally-coherent modes of talking about school mathematics in North America, focusing in particular on the vocabularies associated with “Standardized/Traditional Education” and “Authentic/Reform Education.” He uses this analysis to interrogate a surprisingly popular “interlanguage” that seems to echo sensibilities from both Standardized and Authentic Education, but that lacks the coherence of either. Noting how modes of talking are associated with modes of teaching, he points to some of the troublesome implications for mathematics teaching as he draws an analogy between reforming one’s teaching practice and learning a second language.

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