The Culture of the Mathematics Classroom

"...the volume does an excellent job of providing the reader with a rich array of classroom examples that are interpreted using theoretically grounded analyses of teaching-learning processes." APA Review of Books

• List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Falk Seeger, Jörg Voigt and Ute Waschescio; Part I. Changing Classroom Culture: 1. Joint activity in the mathematics classrooms: a Vygotskian perspective Maria G. Bartolini Bussi; 2. Evolution of classroom culture in mathematics, teacher education and reflection on action Nadine Bednarz; 3. Reorganizing the motivational sphere of classroom culture: an activity-theoretical analysis of planning in a teacher team Yrjö Engeström; 4. The practice of teaching mathematics: experimental conditions of change Lisa Hefendehl-Hebeker; Part II. Classroom Processes: 5. Reasoning processes and the quality of reasoning Albrecht Abele; 6. A constructivist perspective on the culture of the mathematics classroom Paul Cobb and Erna Yackel; 7. The culture of the mathematics classroom: negotiating the mathematical meaning of empirical phenomena Jörg Voigt; 8. The missing link: social and cultural aspects in social constructivist theories Ute Waschescio; Part III. Epistemology and Classroom Culture: 9. The culture of the mathematics classroom and the relations between personal and public knowledge: an epistemological perspective Paul Ernest; 10. Problems of transfer of classroom mathematical knowledge to practical situations Jeff Evans; 11. Cultural perspectives on mathematics and mathematics teaching and learning Stephen Lerman; 12. Representations in the mathematics classroom: reflections and constructions Falk Seeger; 13. Mathematical understanding in classroom interaction: the interrelation of social and epistemological constraints Heinz Steinbring; Part IV. Outlook: 14. About the notion of culture in mathematics education Heinrich Bauersfeld; Author index; Subject index.