Teacher education encounters climate change and critical mathematics education

In this study we discuss the complexity faced by a teacher when Critical Mathematics Education (CME) and climate change are being brought into a specific teaching setting that is part of a teacher education program a large university in Sweden. Taking CME and Active Network Theory into account alon...

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Main Authors: Magnus Ödmo, Lisa Björklund Boistrup, Anna Chronaki
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Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de São Paulo 2024-11-01
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Online Access:https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/prometeica/article/view/19520
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description In this study we discuss the complexity faced by a teacher when Critical Mathematics Education (CME) and climate change are being brought into a specific teaching setting that is part of a teacher education program a large university in Sweden. Taking CME and Active Network Theory into account along with the teacher’s dilemmas, we here perform an inquiry that aims to map potential actants and their relationships, as they are core in a teacher’s experience to plan and enact a statistics course that engages the theme of climate change through CME. For this inquiry, the teacher’s log (or course diary notes) is analysed. The analysis locates instances where the teacher connects to different actants such as the climate change phenomenon, the curricula, the course plan, and student teachers. In some instances, these actants suggest ways of doing that contradict each other. In short, the analysis shows that since diverse arguments can be narrated, one might be left with the feeling of missing something in just following one. It is a rather vulnerable situation the teacher is in; risking being hold accountable for not dealing with the mathematical content that has good arguments for it to be dealt with, but, yet, knowing that taking this risk allows mathematics to enter the social.
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spelling doaj-art-a6ed59c698f14d37be8c7e1bf53977c72024-12-06T12:44:11ZengUniversidade Federal de São PauloPrometeica1852-94882024-11-013110.34024/prometeica.2024.31.19520Teacher education encounters climate change and critical mathematics educationMagnus Ödmo0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4672-6777Lisa Björklund Boistrup1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5671-6428Anna Chronaki2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-9387Malmö UniversityMalmö UniversityMalmö University In this study we discuss the complexity faced by a teacher when Critical Mathematics Education (CME) and climate change are being brought into a specific teaching setting that is part of a teacher education program a large university in Sweden. Taking CME and Active Network Theory into account along with the teacher’s dilemmas, we here perform an inquiry that aims to map potential actants and their relationships, as they are core in a teacher’s experience to plan and enact a statistics course that engages the theme of climate change through CME. For this inquiry, the teacher’s log (or course diary notes) is analysed. The analysis locates instances where the teacher connects to different actants such as the climate change phenomenon, the curricula, the course plan, and student teachers. In some instances, these actants suggest ways of doing that contradict each other. In short, the analysis shows that since diverse arguments can be narrated, one might be left with the feeling of missing something in just following one. It is a rather vulnerable situation the teacher is in; risking being hold accountable for not dealing with the mathematical content that has good arguments for it to be dealt with, but, yet, knowing that taking this risk allows mathematics to enter the social. https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/prometeica/article/view/19520Critical mathematics educationClimate changeTeacher educationActive Network Theory
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Critical mathematics education
Climate change
Teacher education
Active Network Theory
title Teacher education encounters climate change and critical mathematics education
title_full Teacher education encounters climate change and critical mathematics education
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title_short Teacher education encounters climate change and critical mathematics education
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topic Critical mathematics education
Climate change
Teacher education
Active Network Theory
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