Critical issues in mathematics education major contributions of Alan Bishop /

Critical Issues in Mathematics Education presents the significant contributions of Professor Alan Bishop within the mathematics education research community. Six critical issues, each of which have had paramount importance in the development of mathematics education research, are reviewed and includ...

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Other Authors: Bishop, Alan J., Clarkson, P. C. 1947-, Presmeg, Norma C., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Springer, ©2008.
New York : [2008]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) : illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Developing a festschrift with a difference
  • In conversation with Alan Bishop
  • Decision-making, the intervening variable
  • Teachers' decision making: from Alan J. Bishop to today
  • Spatial abilities and mathematics education
  • a review
  • Spatial abilities research as a foundation for visualization in teaching and learning mathematics
  • Spatial abilities, mathematics, culture, and the Papua New Guinea experience
  • Visualizing and mathematics in a pre-technological culture
  • Cultural and social aspects of mathematics education: responding to Bishop's challenge
  • Chinese culture, Islamic culture, and mathematics education
  • Mathematical power to the people
  • Mathematical power as political power
  • the politics of mathematics education
  • Research, effectiveness, and the practitioners' world
  • Practicing research and researching practice
  • Reflexivity, effectiveness, and the interaction of researcher and practitioner worlds
  • Mathematics teaching and values education
  • an intersection in need of research
  • Valuing values in mathematics education.