Article
Initiating change in mathematics classrooms: lessons from Pakistan
Schools and schooling practices in Pakistan: lessons for policy and practice
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Document Type
Book Chapter
Disciplines
Abstract
This chapter reports on a study of students’ learning in the context of mathematics classrooms where the teacher had initiated change in classroom practices. The changed practices included use of cooperative learning strategies and introduction of mathematics tasks that were richer, open ended, and related to everyday experiences of students. Researching students’ learning in the classroom context necessitates taking account of those shared understandings and invisible meanings that establish classroom culture and that provide meaning to the interpretations being made by the participants of the classroom, i.e. the students and the teacher.
Citation Information
Anjum Halai. "Initiating change in mathematics classrooms: lessons from Pakistan" Schools and schooling practices in Pakistan: lessons for policy and practice (2009) p. 27 - 45 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anjum_halai/1/