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Reframing Quality And Impact: The Place Of Theory In Education Research, Jan Wright
Reframing Quality And Impact: The Place Of Theory In Education Research, Jan Wright
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
The various research assessment exercises in UK, New Zealand and now Australia have motivated discussions around the nature of ‘quality’ and the purpose of educational research. To a certain extent this is also a discussion about theory, although the word is unlikely to be mentioned, in that terms such as ‘value free’, ‘neutral’, ‘critical’, ‘practical’, ‘transformational’, ‘evidence-based’ all invoke particular ontological and/or epistemological positions, that are and can be contested. One of the questions educational researchers face in the context of such exercises, though again implicit, is what value is attributed to robust theoretically informed research and which theoretical positions …
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.