Perspectives on Practice and Meaning in Mathematics and Science Classrooms

A team of researchers centred at the University of Melbourne, each with particular areas of expertise, contributed their analyses of a shared collection of videotape, interview, and documentary data. The result is a variegated picture of science and mathe

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Mathematics Education Library VOLUME 25

Managing Editor A.J. Bishop, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Editorial Board H. Bauersfeld, Bielefeld, Germany I.P. Becker, Illinois, U.S.A. G. Leder, Melbourne, Australia A. Sfard, Haifa, Israel O. Stovsmose, Aalborg, Denmark S. Turnau, Krakow, Poland

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

PERSPECTIVES ON PRACTICE AND MEANING IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE CLASSROOMS

Edited by

DAVID CLARKE University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Negotiating Meanings - An Introduction

ix xi 1

David Clarke

Chapter 2: Complementary Accounts Methodology

13

David Clarke

Chapter 3: Untangling Uncertainty, Negotiation, and Intersubjectivity

33

David Clarke

Chapter 4: Accounting for Accounts of Learning Mathematics: Reading the ZPD in Videos and Transcripts

53

Stephen Lerman

Chapter 5: Mathematical Interactions and Their Influence on Learning

75

Derek Holton and Gill Thomas

Chapter 6: Interest in Learning and Classroom Interaction

105

Mary Ainley

Chapter 7: Cognitive Engagement in the Mathematics Classroom

131

Sue Helme and David Clarke

Chapter 8: Measuring Values in Classroom Teaching and Learning

155

Carol Lewis-Shaw

Chapter 9: Opportunities to Learn Science? Multiple Contexts at Work in a Science Classroom

197

Susan Rodrigues

Chapter 10: The Role of Gesture in Co-constructing Mathematical Understanding

231

Robert Reeve and Fiona Reynolds

Chapter 11 : Learning and Teaching from Ignorance to Understanding

255

John Baird

Chapter 12: Teaching/Learning

2 91

David Clarke

Appendices: A. Summary of Lessons Analysed B. Sample Integrated Text Author Index Subject Index

321 331 339 347

PREFACE This book represents the culmination of an unusual process of interpretation, negotiation and synthesis. It is the realisation of a vision of an integrated description of classroom practice and learning that motivated the research team members, who are also the chapter authors, during their analysis and in the subsequent integration of their results into the kaleidoscope that is this book. It is not complete. We would be the first to assert that any portrayal of a social setting as complex as a classroom is inevitably incomplete. But not, we think, without value. In part, it was our perception of the inadequacies of previous descriptions of classroo