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Reflected Abstraction
In this chapter, we describe reflected abstraction and discuss its implications for empirical research into the teaching and learning of mathematics....
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Abstraction and embodiment: exploring the process of gras** a general
This paper reports from a case study which explores kindergarten children’s mathematical abstraction in a teaching–learning activity about reflection...
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Situated Learning Within Practice, Culture, and Community: Jean Lave’s Political Project
Jean Lave is a social anthropologist whose studies in the 1970s and 1980s of apprentice tailors in West Africa and everyday routines such as grocery...
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Body motion, early algebra, and the colours of abstraction
This paper focuses on the emergence of abstraction through the use of a new kind of motion detector—WiiGraph—with 11-year-old children. In the...
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Conceptualising TPACK Within Mathematics Education: Teachers’ Strategies for Capitalising on Transitions Within and Beyond Dynamic Geometry Software
This article investigates the knowledge arising in mathematics teachers’ planning of how to manage transitions within and beyond dynamic geometry...
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Situated Perspectives on Creating Mathematics Tasks for Peace and Sustainability
In this paper, we reflect on our experiences teaching and working with mathematics teachers in Canada, Ghana, India and Swaziland to explore...
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Learning in relevant corporate Environments – Situated Learning in Companies and other Organizations
In our professional roles and in our private relationships, we repeatedly encounter limits. With the “circumstances” or the “others” exacerbating the...
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Exploring computational thinking as a boundary object between mathematics and computer programming for STEM teaching and learning
Programming is an interdisciplinary practice with applications in both mathematics and computer science. Mathematics concerns rigor, abstraction, and...
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A Framework for Creative Insights Within Internalization of Mathematics
Constructivism is arguably the prevailing theory of mathematics educational research; based upon the work of Piaget, it posits that human knowledge...
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Envisaging Teacher Spatial Competency Through the Lenses of Situated Cognition and Personal Imagination to Reposition It as a Professional Classroom Practice Skill
This chapter examines the complex phenomenon of teachers’ spatial interactions in their learning environments. Its goal is to examine concepts and...
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High-quality use of representations in the mathematics classroom – a matter of the cultural perspective?
The teacher’s use of representations is a crucial aspect of instructional quality in mathematics education, given their pivotal role in facilitating...
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Radical imagination and reimagining the space of curriculum for democracy
School-level education in Australia, and in other parts of the world, is currently directed by forces of conformity and compliance. These forces are...
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Facilitated model-based reasoning in immersive virtual reality: Meaning-making and embodied interactions with dynamic processes
This paper explores the affordances of virtual reality (VR) simulations for facilitated model-based reasoning. Thirty-four undergraduate students...
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Embodiment Matters in Knowledge Building
In this paper, we begin a conversation with educators invested in develo** epistemic insight. We argue that generative artificial intelligence...
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Video games for assessing computational thinking: a systematic literature review
Computational thinking (CT) is a widely researched domain. Many researchers around the world have conducted studies to define CT, to develop CT in...
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Classification and Mathematical Thinking: Tinkering with Classification Games in a Constructionist Environment
Classification is a complex process that involves scientific concepts and higher-order mental processes such as abstraction, generalization, and...
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Religious education and social justice: reflections on an approach to teaching religious education
This paper examines the possible relationship between religious education and social justice. A consideration of what it is that education in the...
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Visual Education and the Care of the Figuring Self. Mr. Palomar’s Exercises as Pedagogy
This paper engages with Italo Calvino’s lecture on Visibility, included in his last—and testamentary—volume Six Memos , by understanding it in an...