学校和大学活动系统之间和内部的矛盾有助于解释学生在高等数学方面的困难

IF 1.1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI:10.1093/TEAMAT/HRW014

K. Jooganah, J. Williams

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摘要

本文探讨了活动理论(Engestrom, 1987)框架下的矛盾如何解释大一本科生学习高等数学的经历。我们分析了一所大学数学系的学生和讲师的定性访谈和观察数据，认为学校和大学活动系统之间的矛盾，以及后者内部的矛盾，有助于解释学生在大学遇到高等数学时可能遇到的一些困难，包括认知和身份的冲突。这有助于我们对学生期望学习的系统采取批判的立场，并指出可能更好地支持学生学习的系统开发。

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Contradictions between and within school and university activity systems helping to explain students' difficulty with advanced mathematics

This article explores how contradictions, as framed by activity theory (Engestrom, 1987), can explain first-year undergraduate students’ experiences of learning advanced mathematics. Analysing qualitative interview and observational data of students and lecturers based in one university mathematics department, we argue that contradictions between the school and university activity systems, as well as those within the latter, help explain some of the difficulties, including the conflict in cognition and identity, students can experience when they encounter advanced mathematics at university. This helps us to adopt a critical stance towards the systems students are expected to learn in, and points to system developments that might better support student learning.

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Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： The journal provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences which contribute to the improvement of mathematics teaching and learning for students from upper secondary/high school level through to university first degree level. A distinctive feature of the journal is its emphasis on the applications of mathematics and mathematical modelling within the context of mathematics education world-wide. The journal"s readership consists of mathematics teachers, students, researchers and those concerned with curriculum development and assessment, indeed anyone concerned about the education of users of mathematics.