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Mathematics Education (Hardcover)
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Mathematics Education (Hardcover)
Series: Major Themes in Education
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Mathematics education is one of the most publicized and contested
fields of endeavour in the area of education more generally. The
entrails of international comparative mathematics achievement
surveys are pored over by the media, politicians and educators
alike; and, while for the last fifty years at least it has been
assumed by most everyone in modern societies that mathematics
should be a compulsory subject in all schools, parents and scholars
alike argue furiously about whether traditional teaching and rote
practising of mathematical skills is better or worse for pupils
than conceptual teaching based on children's own constructed ideas.
University mathematics professors tend either to deplore the
dropping of standards in their students, and thus the dropping of
standards in teachers, or heartily embrace the new learning
techniques made possible through careful use of the new
technologies. As academic thinking about and around mathematics
education continues to flourish and develop, this new title in the
Routledge series, Major Themes in Education, meets the need for an
authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject's vast
literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited
by Alan Bishop, a prominent scholar in the field, this Routledge
Major Work is a four-volume collection of foundational and
cutting-edge contributions that cover all of the major themes in
mathematics education. The first of the four volumes ('Mathematics,
Mathematics Education, and the Curriculum') brings together key
work on the goals of mathematics education, as well as vital
material on the relationship of the curriculum with numeracy,
assessment, technology, and the place of marginalized students. The
second volume ('Mathematics Teaching and Teachers') gathers the
most important thinking on topics such as pedagogical practices;
mathematics teachers' beliefs, attitudes, and values; professional
development; teacher education; and teachers as researchers. The
third volume covers the central theories of 'Mathematics Learning
and Learners'. The final volume in the collection ('The Contexts of
Mathematics Education') gathers vital material from the rich body
of literature that explores the social, cultural and political
contexts in which mathematics education sits. With comprehensive
introductions to each volume, newly written by the editor, which
place the collected material in its historical and intellectual
context, this Routledge Major Work is an essential work of
reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists in
mathematics education and scholars working in related areas-as well
as by educational policy-makers and professionals-as a vital
one-stop research tool.
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