Twice last week I was asked for references, and I've spent some time tracking some down. (I'm terrible at remembering titles and authors. I use Mekentosj Papers to help organize and categorize what I've read - and it helps - but I'm still kind of bad at this.)
(1) References having to do with teaching from the students' perspective (that is, not charting a course based on the expertise of a scientist - directing students to a known answer, but instead helping them untangle their knots and work together to figure something out).
Duckworth; Hammer (Disc. Learning and Disc. Teaching); Schauble (just about anything - there's a recent paper I love - "supporting the development of the epistemology of inquiry"); Deborah Ball (he description of Shay numbers seems like it must be an inside-out view); Mortimer and Scott (The Tension Between Authoritative and Dialogic Discourse - Kara - via Rachel - reminded me of this literature).
(2) Then the other line of research had to do with questions-that-aren't-questions, or the role and meta-messages of question. For this I think of Lakoff's "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things" where he reports on (Grice??) and what it is to "lie." Tannen and framing. And Conversation Analysis and a paper on "I dunno..." (asking kids "are you popular" and they say "oh, I don't know. I guess." - the "I dunno" has a role in the conversation that has nothing to do with knowing/not-knowing).
This is still all too vague. I'll keep working on this and updating this list as I come up with specifics.
I just thought I would remind everyone that I am reading this blog and that you had better watch what you say.
ReplyDeleteWith Leslie's help, I compiled a list of references for the aforementioned sources. Here it is:
ReplyDeleteLeslie's Reading List
Books:
Duckworth, Eleanor: "The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807735132/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=A26J6JNN8TGTL9
Lakoff, George; Nunez, Rafael E.: Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being.
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Comes-Embodied-Brings/dp/0465037712/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282917070&sr=1-1
Lakoff, George: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Dangerous-Things-George-Lakoff/dp/0226468046/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282911269&sr=8-1
Tannen, Deborah: Framing in Discourse.
http://www.amazon.com/Framing-Discourse-Deborah-Tannen/dp/0195079965
Book/Journal Articles:
Ball, Deborah L.: Crossing Boundaries To Examine the Mathematics in Elementary Teaching. In: Bass, Hyman; Lam, Tsit-Yuen; Magid, Andy R.: Algebra, K-theory, groups, and education: on the occasion of Hyman Bass's 65th Birthday. pg. 15-36.
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5AGmJFc6jncC&oi=fnd&pg=RA1-PA15&dq=%22shea%27s+numbers%22&ots=Y87tncQQhB&sig=E8YwcqDs7MSjV8GXLRThV8OYodM#v=onepage&q=%22shea%27s%20numbers%22&f=false
(I have this as a pdf, if anyone is interested, shoot me an email)
Hammer, David: Discovery Learning and Discovery Teaching. Cognition and Instruction. 15, 4 (1997). pg 485-529
Lehrer, Richard; Schauble, Leona; Lucas, Deborah: Supporting development of the epistemology of inquiry. Cognitive Development. 23, 4 (2008). pg. 512-529
Scott, Philip H.; Mortimer, Eduardo F.: The Tension Between Authoritative and Dialogic Discourse: A Fundamental Characteristic of Meaning Making Interactions in High School Science Lessons. Science Education. 90, 4 (2006). pg. 605-631
Sfard, Anna: Reification as the Birth of Metaphor. For the learning of mathematics; an international journal of mathematics education. 14, 1 (1994). pg. 44-55
We're missing the "I don't know" paper. Reference might come at some point in the future.
thanks for tracking things down - very useful!
ReplyDeleteI might have cited the wrong Ball paper. David Hammer cites a different paper that talks about "Sean Numbers," and I think this is actually the one.
ReplyDeleteBall, Deborah L.: With an eye on the mathematical horizon: Dilemmas of teaching elementary school mathematics. The Elementary School Journal, Volume 93(1993), Number 4.
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