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Contradictions and shifts in teaching with a new curriculum: The role of mathematics

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: In the framework of Activity Theory (AT), contradictions are sources of change and development. Borrowing concepts from AT, we attempt an interpretation of identified contradictions in a collaborative context where teachers plan and evaluate their teaching in the process of enacting a new curriculum. We examine the connection between contradictions and shifts in teaching activity, with a special focus on the mathematical character of these contradictions. We claim that dialectical oppositions lying in the background of these contradictions promote teachers to broaden their teaching activity by embedding into it new mathematical and pedagogical possibilities.

Source: HAL

Authors: Konstantinos Stouraitis, Despina Potari, Jeppe Skott

Institutions: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aarhus University, Linnaeus University

Language: English

Topic: Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2298336593

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Cites: 13

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10