Crafter, S. and Abreu, G. d. (2010) The mediating role of a minority ethnic teacher's past experiences as a tool for understanding mathematical learning and teaching. Paper presented to: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Special Interest Group 21: Teaching and Learning in Culturally Diverse Settings Meeting: Moving Through Cultures of Learning (SIG 21 2010), University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, 02-03 September 2010. (Unpublished)
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| Abstract: | This paper will examine how a teacher’s past experiences, alongside experiences of the present and future, play a mediating role in understanding home and school mathematics learning and teaching. The sociocultural approach will form the basis for the introduction of two key theoretical concepts which are i) heterochronicity, which looks at the way meaning is generated over time in the overlapping histories of the individual and society and ii) prolepsis, where the notion of future mediates with the past and present. As such, the movement through cultures of learning are temporal and spatial. The analysis will draw on a case study exemplar of a minority ethnic teacher (Pakistani Kashmiri) working in a school which was mostly made up of South Asian pupils (Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi) in the Southeast of England. The findings will shed light on how she interweaves her own experience of growing up in the English school system with herself as a school teacher, herself as a mother and her understandings of the parents in the school. Thus, her own past experiences of mathematics learning are embedded at the level of the individual, the family and the wider community. Perhaps more importantly, this paper will address how her general understandings of the wider community have a powerful influence on her representations of the mathematical |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ethnic minority teachers, past experiences, mathematics |
| Subjects: |
L Education > LC Special aspects of Education > LC225 Home and school L Education > LC Special aspects of Education > LC3701 Immigrants or ethnic and linguistic minorities. Bilingual schools and bilingual education Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA11 Study and teaching. Research |
| Creators: | Crafter, Sarah and Abreu, Guida de |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > School of Social Sciences (to 2016) University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Group > Social and Cultural Research in Psychology Group Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences |
| Date: | 3 September 2010 |
| Date Type: | Presentation |
| Event Title: | European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Special Interest Group 21: Teaching and Learning in Culturally Diverse Settings Meeting: Moving Through Cultures of Learning (SIG 21 2010) |
| Event Dates: | 02-03 September 2010 |
| Event Location: | University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Event Type: | Conference |
| Language: | English |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/2831 |
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