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With an Eye on the Mathematical Horizon: Dilemmas of Teaching Elementary School Mathematics
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The authors examines the challenge of creating classroom practices in the spirit of these ideals with a window on her own teaching of elementary school mathematics, and presents three dilemmas-of content, discourse, and community-that arise in trying to teach in ways that are, in Bruner's terms, "intellectually honest".Abstract:
Ideas like "understanding," "authenticity," and "community" are central in current debates about curriculum, instruction, and assessment Many believe that teaching and learning would be improved if classrooms were organized to engage students in authentic tasks, guided by teachers with deep disciplinary understandings Students would conjecture, experiment, and make arguments; they would frame and solve problems; and they would read, write, and create things that mattered to them This article examines the challenge of creating classroom practices in the spirit of these ideals With a window on her own teaching of elementary school mathematics, the author presents three dilemmas-of content, discourse, and community-that arise in trying to teach in ways that are, in Bruner's terms, "intellectually honest" These dilemmas arise reasonably from competing and worth-while aims and from the uncertainties inherent in striving to attain them The article traces and explores the author's framing of and response tread more
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Content Knowledge for Teaching: What Makes It Special?
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Policy Implementation and Cognition: Reframing and Refocusing Implementation Research
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Chapter 6 : Teacher Learning and the Acquisition of Professional Knowledge: An Examination of Research on Contemporary Professlonal Development
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Where Is the Mind? Constructivist and Sociocultural Perspectives on Mathematical Development
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Redefining teaching, re‐imagining teacher education
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Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching
TL;DR: In this paper, Shulman observa la historia de evaluaciones docentes, noting that the evaluación docente parecia preocuparse tanto por los conocimientos, como el siglo anterior se preoccupaba por la pedagogia.
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TL;DR: Dewey's "Common Sense" as mentioned in this paper explores the nature of knowledge and learning as well as formal education's place, purpose, and process within a democratic society, and it continues to influence contemporary educational thought.
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Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
TL;DR: Collins, Brown, and Newman as mentioned in this paper argue that knowledge is situated, being in part a product of the activity, context, and culture in which it is developed and used, and propose cognitive apprenticeship as an alternative to conventional practices.
CONOCIMIENTO Y ENSEÑANZA: FUNDAMENTOS DE LA NUEVA REFORMA 1 Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform
TL;DR: Lee S. Shulman as mentioned in this paper builds his foundation for teachi ng reform on an idea of teaching that emphasizes comprension and reasoning, transformation and reflection, and argues that this emphasis is justified by the resoluteness with which research and policy have so blatantly ignored those aspects of teaching in the past.
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Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform
TL;DR: Lee S. Shulman as mentioned in this paper builds his foundation for teaching reform on an idea of teaching that emphasizes comprehension and reasoning, transformation and reflection. "This emphasis is justified," he writes,...