Social Metacognition, Micro-Creativity, and Justifications: Statistical Discourse Analysis of a Mathematics Classroom Conversation

2013 ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Ming Ming Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Classroom Conversation ◽  
Social Metacognition

Enhancing Students' Mathematical Learning Through Focused Teacher Growth: A Review of of Promoting Purposeful Discourse…

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 651-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Janelle McFeetors
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Mathematics Standards ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Mathematics Educators

Communication within the mathematics classroom has captured the interest of mathematics educators over several decades. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards publications (1989, 1991, 2000) highlight communication as one of the fundamental strands in mathematical processes. Although research has investigated students' written mathematics work (e.g., Masingila & Prus-Wisniowska, 1996; Mason & McFeetors, 2002; Pugalee, 2004), considerable focus has also been given to understanding effective spoken discourse patterns within the mathematics classroom (e.g., Hufferd-Ackles, Fuson, & Sherin, 2004; Lampert & Blunk, 1998; Nathan & Knuth, 2003). Pimm (1994) argues that focusing on “the form and structure of spoken interactions between mathematics teachers and pupils” (p. 134) can inform the way in which classroom discourse is shaped. He encourages the use of discourse analysis as one way of making sense of questions that address the what, how, and why of teachers' forms of language in teaching mathematics. Increasingly, studies using discourse analysis are being used to describe effective classroom communicative practices (e.g., Bills, 2000; Gresalfi, Martin, Hand, & Greeno, 2009; Truxaw & DeFranco, 2008; Zolkower & Shreyar, 2007).

Gender Differences in Mathematics: A Discourse Analysis

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catriona Macleod
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Structuralist Framework ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Model C

Perspectives dealing with the study of gender and mathematics have failed generally to move beyond the individual/society divide. The contradictory nature of subjectivity and the operation and interpenetration of power and knowledge have not been taken into account. This article is based on the post-structuralist framework. The work of Walkerdine, which highlights the processes within the classroom which allow girls to succeed in mathematics but never actually be successful, is of interest. The methodology used is that of discourse analysis which makes clear both the positionings available to the participants as well as the power relations formed. The sample was drawn from a top-achieving Std 8 Higher Grade class in an affluent Model C school. This represents a theoretically salient sample as the literature points to ‘gender differences’ being most pronounced in the upper levels of mathematics education. The analysis clearly highlights the double-bind within which girls find themselves in the mathematics classroom. The apparent equality of opportunity and non-sexism is counteracted by the positioning of girls as hard working but without natural flair in mathematics. The characteristics that make it possible to achieve in mathematics are ascribed to males. The resistance to this powerful ‘disciplinary technology’ is the invoking of the feminist discourse.

“She's Always Been the Smart One. I've Always Been the Dumb One”: Identities in the Mathematics Classroom

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Pierson Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Relative Positioning ◽  
Large Role ◽  
Structural Patterns ◽  
Student Discourse ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Discursive Patterns

The moment-to-moment dynamics of student discourse plays a large role in students' enacted mathematics identities. Discourse analysis was used to describe meaningful discursive patterns in the interactions of 2 students in a 7th-grade, technology-based, curricular unit (SimCalc MathWorlds®) and to show how mathematics identities are enacted at the microlevel. Frameworks were theoretically and empirically connected to identity to characterize the participants' relative positioning and the structural patterns in their discourse (e.g., who talks, who initiates sequences, whose ideas are taken up and publicly recognized). Data indicated that students' peer-to-peer discourse patterns explained the enactment of differing mathematics identities within the same local context. Thus, the ways people talk and interact are powerful influences on who they are, and can become, with respect to mathematics.

scholarly journals Understanding Meaningful Exchanges: Mathematics Discourse Analysis and Complexity Thinking

in education ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-138
Author(s):  
Evan Throop Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Mathematics Discourse ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Analyze Data

The focus in this paper is on the analysis of student-centered discourse through applying a discourse analysis tool that I developed to analyze data from an elementary mathematics classroom. The purpose of the analysis tool is to understand the impact of the complex learning system on the emerging classroom discourse. The minimum conditions for complexity created an invitational space for students that allowed interactions and meaningful exchanges to flourish through exploration of mathematical concepts and collective participation in classroom discourse. The analytic lens provides the teacher with a tool to understand more clearly the dynamics of meaningful exchanges identified as sharing, building, exploring and blocking. Keywords: Classroom discourse; mathematics education; complexity

Plasticity of the neural coding metaphor: An unnoticed rhetoric in scientific discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Frezza ◽  
Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Neural Coding ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Brain Behavior

Abstract The convincing argument that Brette makes for the neural coding metaphor as imposing one view of brain behavior can be further explained through discourse analysis. Instead of a unified view, we argue, the coding metaphor's plasticity, versatility, and robustness throughout time explain its success and conventionalization to the point that its rhetoric became overlooked.

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