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Bert van Oers
Researcher at VU University Amsterdam
Publications - 100
Citations - 2637
Bert van Oers is an academic researcher from VU University Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Early childhood education & Curriculum. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 95 publications receiving 2290 citations. Previous affiliations of Bert van Oers include University of Amsterdam.
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From context to contextualizing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the notion of context and examine its value for research and development of educational praxes and argue that context should be conceived of dynamically, i.e. in terms of context-making (contextualizing).
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A Vygotskian perspective on teacher education
TL;DR: In this paper, a teacher education environment offers support to trainee teachers for developing a professional identity by exploring the practice of teaching for its underlying public meanings and as these meaning relate to their own structures of personal meanings.
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Emergent mathematical thinking in the context of play
TL;DR: In this article, some outcomes of a research programme (based at the Free University Amsterdam) are discussed that present empirical studies and their theoretical background (cultural-historical theory, elaborated in an educational concept called "Developmental Education") that demonstrates the promising potentials of promoting mathematical thinking through supporting young children's appropriation of schematic representations and notations in the context of play.
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The Fallacy of Decontextualization
TL;DR: The authors argue that decontextualization is a poor concept that provides little explanation for the developmental process toward meaningful abstract thinking. And they propose a conceptualization of the notion of context from an activity point of view and contend that the conscious process of recontextualizing, that is, the continuous process of embedding contexts in contexts, can lead to an explanation of the development of meaningful abstract reasoning.
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Educational forms of initiation in mathematical culture
TL;DR: The notion of speech genre brings a cultural historical dimension in the discourse that is supposed to be acted out by the teacher who demonstrates the tools, rules, and norms that are passed on by a mathematical community.