Book chapter
Reforming Mathematics Education: Theorising Teachers' and Students' Use of Technology
Reforming Learning: Concepts, Issues and Practice in the Asia-Pacific Region, pp.43-65
Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 5, Springer Dordrecht
2009
Abstract
For some time, education researchers and curriculum policy-makers in Australia and elsewhere have recognised the potential for mathematics learning to be transformed by technologies such as computers and graphics calculators, and every Australian State and Territory has now developed mathematics syllabuses that mandate the use of these resources in high stakes assessment at the end of secondary school. This chapter explores the impact of these technology-related reforms on mathematics learning and teaching in the Australian context by analysing examples of classroom practice and teacher learning, and development drawn from a series of socioculturally oriented research studies. Its purpose is to interrogate assumptions about relationships between access to technology, its use by teachers, and the nature of students' technology-aided learning.
Details
- Title
- Reforming Mathematics Education: Theorising Teachers' and Students' Use of Technology
- Authors
- Merrilyn Goos (Author) - University of Queensland
- Contributors
- Chi-hung Ng (Editor) - Griffith UniversityPeter Renshaw (Editor) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Reforming Learning: Concepts, Issues and Practice in the Asia-Pacific Region, pp.43-65
- Series
- Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects; 5
- Publisher
- Springer Dordrecht
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-3024-6_3; 10.1007/978-1-4020-3024-6
- ISSN
- 2214-9791
- ISBN
- 9781402030246
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99569203802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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