ERIC Number: ED606538
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Publication Date: 2018
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Reflected Abstraction as a Mechanism for Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Tallman, Michael; Weaver, John
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (40th, Greenville, SC, Nov 15-18, 2018)
Tallman (2015) argued that pedagogical content knowledge is a form of content knowledge with particular characteristics that endow it with pedagogical utility, and he conjectured that an essential characteristic of a teacher's content knowledge is her conscious awareness of the mental actions and conceptual operations that comprise her mathematical schemes. We report the results of a study that explored this conjecture by examining the pedagogical implications of engaging a pre-service secondary teacher in a mathematical intervention to support her construction of a powerful scheme for constant rate of change and to engender her conscious awareness of the mental processes that constitute this scheme. [For the complete proceedings, see ED606531.]
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Cognitive Processes, Metacognition, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Reflective Teaching, Educational Experiments
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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