Complex Conversations

Teaching and learning involve reflexive actions and
should be chosen thoughtfully and deliberately, not
because someone has decided what works. In this
study, I examine how complex conversations might
offer pedagogical and theoretical (re)considerations
in a teacher education course on mathematics. The two
main research questions I explore are:
1) How can complex conversations those involving
multiple perspectives aid pre-service teachers in
becoming reflective practitioners, effective
professionals, and inquiring pedagogues?
2) How am I transformed as I experience and reflect
on participation in these complex conversations?
Complex conversations encourage a different form of
interaction, a different way of imagining the world.
May mathematics education be(come) a field of study
that allows for differences, multiple perspectives,
and authentic questions, where ideas do not converge
or diverge but co-emerge

Autorentext

Sarah Smitherman Pratt earned a B.S. from Texas A&M University,M.A. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. She then becamean assistant professor in mathematics education at the Universityof North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently works at LouisianaResource Center for in Baton Rouge, LA, where she resides withher husband and daughter.

Klappentext

Teaching and learning involve reflexive actions andshould be chosen thoughtfully and deliberately, notbecause someone has decided "what works." In thisstudy, I examine how complex conversations mightoffer pedagogical and theoretical (re)considerationsin a teacher education course on mathematics. The twomain research questions I explore are: 1) How can complex conversations-those involvingmultiple perspectives-aid pre-service teachers inbecoming reflective practitioners, effectiveprofessionals, and inquiring pedagogues? 2) How am I transformed as I experience and reflecton participation in these complex conversations? Complex conversations encourage a different form ofinteraction, a different way of imagining the world.May mathematics education be(come) a field of studythat allows for differences, multiple perspectives,and authentic questions, where ideas do not convergeor diverge but co-emerge