Exploring support strategies for high school mathematics teachers from underachieving schools
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...Brijlall and Maharaj (2014) also confirm the views expressed by Ball and Bass about teachers’ mathematics knowledge....
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...[26, 27] and [28] studied mental constructions of pre-service teachers when learning Calculus, fractions and matrix algebra in separate cases respectively....
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...The theoretical framework for this paper is APOS (action-process-objectschema) mental constructions and this is how it differs from the paper by Brijlall and Maharaj (2014)....
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...A number of studies (Stacey 1988; Vinner 1991; Kieran 1992; Esty 1992; Sfard and Linchevski 1994; Bell 1995; Linchevski and Herscovics 1996; Souviney 1996; Dreyfus 1999; Lithner 2000; Mason 2000; Pyke 2003; Maharaj 2005, 2008; Brijlall and Maharaj 2014; Shuilleabhain 2015)) have focused on the teaching and learning of school mathematics....
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...…1991; Kieran 1992; Esty 1992; Sfard and Linchevski 1994; Bell 1995; Linchevski and Herscovics 1996; Souviney 1996; Dreyfus 1999; Lithner 2000; Mason 2000; Pyke 2003; Maharaj 2005, 2008; Brijlall and Maharaj 2014; Shuilleabhain 2015)) have focused on the teaching and learning of school mathematics....
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...But to blend properly the two aspects of a teacher’s capacities requires that we pay as much attention to the content aspects of teaching as we have recently devoted to the elements of the teaching process” (Shulman 1986: 8)....
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...He went against the reforms of the time where the focus was on “how to improve teaching as both an activity and a profession” (Shulman 1987: 3)....
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...Access is a key issue in research and it is a factor that must be considered early in the research procedure (Cohen et al. 2007: 109)....
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...In qualitative research “validity might be addressed through the honesty, depth, richness and scope of the data achieved, the participants, the extent of the triangulation and the disinterestedness or objectivity of the researcher” (Winter as cited in Cohen et al. 2007: 133)....
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...Ethical Issues “A major ethical dilemma is that which requires researchers to strike a balance between the demands placed on them as professional scientists in pursuit of truth, and their subjects’ rights and values potentially threatened by the research” (Cohen et al. 2007: 51)....
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