scholarly journals Advancing a Democratic Pedagogy and Supervision Framework: An Illustrative Case of Teacher Questioning in Secondary Mathematics Instruction

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-46
Author(s):  
Esther Enright ◽  
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Douglas Wieczorek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Teacher Questioning ◽  
Democratic Pedagogy

Grouping of objects as a major idea at the primary level

1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 301-305
Author(s):  
James M. Moser
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
Mathematical Instruction

The Commission on Mathematics, in its well-known report written in 1959, called for the “judicious usc of unifying ideas” in mathematical instruction. While it is true that the report was written for the main purpose of improving secondary mathematics instruction, this particular recommendation has just as much importance for elementary education as it does for secondary.

Five recommendations to school systems for improving secondary mathematics instruction

1962 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 637-642
Author(s):  
Francis J. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
School Systems ◽  
Self Examination

Five points for serious and constructive self-examination

REFORMS IN SECONDARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN RUSSIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH THROUGH EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Valeriy A. Tsvetkov ◽  
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Mikhail N. Dudin ◽  
Nikolay V. Lyasnikov ◽  
Kobilzhon Kh. Zoidov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Secondary Mathematics Education

Compulsive Bodies, Creative Bodies: Beckett'sQuadand Agency in the 21stCentury

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Amanda Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Repetitive Movement ◽  
Repetitive Tasks ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Geological Space ◽  
Alternative Reading

Lying in ditches, tromping through mud, wedged in urns, trash bins, buried in earth, bodies in Beckett appear anything but capable of acting meaningfully on their environments. Bodies in Beckett seem, rather, synonymous with abjection, brokenness, and passivity—as if the human were overcome by its materiality: odours, pain, foot sores, decreased mobility. To the extent that Beckett's personae act, they act vaguely (wandering) or engage in quasi-obsessive, repetitive tasks: maniacal rocking, rotating sucking stones and biscuits, uttering words evacuated of sense, ceaseless pacing. Perhaps the most vivid dramatization of bodies compelled to meaningless, repetitive movement is Quad (1981), Beckett's ‘ballet’ for television, in which four bodies in hooded robes repeat their series ad infinitum. By 1981, has all possibility for intentional action in Beckett been foreclosed? Are we doomed, as Hamm puts it, to an eternal repetition of the same? (‘Moments for nothing, now as always, time was never and time is over, reckoning closed and story ended.’)This article proposes an alternative reading of bodily abjection, passivity and compulsivity in Beckett, a reading that implies a version of agency more capacious than voluntarism. Focusing on Quad as an illustrative case, I show how, if we shift our focus from the body's diminished possibilities for movement to the imbrication of Beckett's personae in environments (a mound of earth), things, and objects, a different story emerges: rather than dramatizing the impossibility of action, Beckett's work may sketch plans for a more ecological, post-human version of agency, a more collaborative mode of ‘acting’ that eases the divide between the human, the world of inanimate objects, and the earth.Movements such as new materialism and object-oriented ontology challenge hierarchies among subjects, objects and environments, questioning the rigid distinction between animate and inanimate, and the notion of the Anthropocene emphasizes the influence of human activity on social and geological space. A major theoretical challenge that arises from such discourses (including 20th-century challenges to the idea of an autonomous, willing, subject) is to arrive at an account of agency robust enough to survive if not the ‘death of the subject’ then its imbrication in the material and social environment it acts upon. Beckett's treatment of the human body suggests a version of agency that draws strength from a body's interaction with its environment, such that meaning is formed in the nexus between body and world. Using the example of Quad, I show how representations of the body in Beckett disturb the opposition between compulsivity (when a body is driven to move or speak in the absence of intention) and creative invention. In Quad, serial repetition works to create an interface between body and world that is receptive to meanings outside the control of a human will. Paradoxically, compulsive repetition in Beckett, despite its uncomfortable closeness to addiction, harnesses a loss of individual control that proposes a more versatile and ecologically mindful understanding of human action.

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