Enriching Teaching Through Artefacts: An Early Childhood Mathematics Teacher Educator's Self-Study Project

IF 0.7 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
M. Kortjass
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This paper reports on what I learned in a self-study research project, using artefacts for teaching foundation phase (FP) pre-service (student) teachers in the module, Numeracy in the Early Years. The study focused on the merits of an integrated learning approach (ILA). As a teacher educator, the self-study concept has inspired me to continually attempt to improve my educational practices with the aim of supporting pre-service teachers’ learning and, consequently, their teaching. ILA requires critical awareness of how mathematical relationships are used in social, environmental, and cultural relations. I adopted a sociocultural theoretical perspective that highlights the fundamental requirement of working together in educational contexts in order to make sense of collective and personal experiences. In the artefact activity I employed, students discussed and presented self-selected cultural artefacts such as beadwork, jewellery, and clothing. This interactive activity demonstrated that pre-service teachers require ample opportunities to utilise objects from their sociocultural environments whilst gaining practical experience of the content of early childhood mathematics in order to learn about and appreciate mathematics in a meaningful way. By engaging in innovative self-study methods to support pre-service teachers, teacher educators can improve the quality of their own practice, and improve student learning.
以手工艺品丰富教学:幼儿数学教师教育工作者的自学项目
本文报告了我在一个自学研究项目中所学到的东西,该项目使用人工制品来教学基础阶段(FP)职前(学生)教师的模块,“早期算术”。本研究聚焦于综合学习方法(ILA)的优点。作为一名教师教育工作者,自学的理念激励着我不断尝试改进我的教育实践,以支持职前教师的学习,从而支持他们的教学。ILA要求对数学关系在社会、环境和文化关系中的应用具有批判性的认识。我采用了社会文化理论的观点,强调了在教育背景下合作的基本要求,以便理解集体和个人的经历。在我使用的人工制品活动中,学生们讨论并展示了自己选择的文物,如珠饰,珠宝和服装。这一互动活动表明,职前教师需要充分的机会利用社会文化环境中的对象,同时获得幼儿数学内容的实践经验,以便以有意义的方式学习和欣赏数学。通过采用创新的自学方法来支持职前教师,教师教育者可以提高自己的实践质量,并改善学生的学习。
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Educational Research for Social Change
Educational Research for Social Change EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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