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The cultural pedagogy of errors: teacher Wang's homework practice in teaching geometric proofs.
- Source :
- Journal of Curriculum Studies; Oct2010, Vol. 42 Issue 5, p597-619, 23p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This study examines the mediating role of homework in the daily practice of a middle-school mathematics teacher and her colleagues in Shanghai. It aims to explore how a system of homework activities mediates and engenders a cultural pedagogy characterized by transforming errors into resources for teaching and learning. The transformation itself embodies teacher learning processes tied up with making sense of errors and providing feedback and pedagogical support to help as many students as possible to 'get it right'. The findings of the study raise important questions about what teaching entails, and how to organize teachers' work so that teacher learning occurs in the process of fostering student learning. This requires a reconceptualization of homework to capitalize on its pedagogical potentials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EDUCATION
HOMEWORK
TEACHING methods
GEOMETRY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220272
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Curriculum Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 54302550
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220271003773901