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Culturally-Responsive Mathematics Pedagogy Through Complexivist Thinking, Wendy S. Nielsen, Cynthia Nicol, Jenipher Owuor
Culturally-Responsive Mathematics Pedagogy Through Complexivist Thinking, Wendy S. Nielsen, Cynthia Nicol, Jenipher Owuor
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
This paper uses a complexity lens to consider the pedagogical project of culturally responsive mathematics. Need for new and different theoretical perspectives for Aboriginal education arise from chronic underachievement among Canada’s Aboriginal students. Culturally responsive mathematics pedagogy as a complex learning system allows a different view into the interrelationships and necessary conditions between culture, education and society, a view that aims to open new possibility for curriculum development, Aboriginal schooling and cultural renewal, while ensuring success for students.
Year 12 Students' And Higher Mathematics: Emerging Issues, Mohan Chinnappan, Stephen Dinham, Anthony J. Herrington, Dale Scott
Year 12 Students' And Higher Mathematics: Emerging Issues, Mohan Chinnappan, Stephen Dinham, Anthony J. Herrington, Dale Scott
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
In order for young Australians to contribute to economic prosperity and remain competitive in a global market place, participation in higher and further education is essential. In this context, participation in mathematics, and in particular, higher mathematics, is an important prerequisite for young Australians to enable them to develop the range of skills that underpin a scientifically literate workforce. This is a report on a study in progress focusing on the fact that participation in mathematics study at higher levels to Year 12, and in universities in Australia, is in decline. We provide data on the specific nature of this …