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A Network-Based Analysis Of Student Learning Trajectories And Andragogical Design, John Kerry O’Meara May 2022

A Network-Based Analysis Of Student Learning Trajectories And Andragogical Design, John Kerry O’Meara

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The core goal of this thesis project is to formalize the complex system that exists naturally in a formal classroom environment. The three factors that are considered in this study are the roles of the student, the roles of the teacher, and the respective environments from which these members arise and how these act as determinants of curriculum development and design. At the curricular scale, educational practices should be treated as a complex system composed of various inherently connected concepts and exchanges of ideas and ways of knowing. This synthesis of previous work and ongoing research efforts employs a network …


A Community Of Learning In An Elementary School Mathematics Classroom, Megan Louise Roeder Aug 2020

A Community Of Learning In An Elementary School Mathematics Classroom, Megan Louise Roeder

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The goal of this study was to investigate opportunities for cultivating a community of learning in an elementary school mathematics classroom using four guiding principles for productive disciplinary engagement. A community of learning involves teachers and students participating equally in negotiating, sharing, and producing knowledge as co-learners, coteachers, and co-collaborators in the classroom. Characteristics of a community of learning align with effective teaching and learning practices described by national governing bodies and researchers in the field of mathematics education. The essence of a community of learning is beneficial in an elementary mathematics classroom because it invokes deep learning about disciplinary …