Discourse Analysis of Interpersonal Meaning to Understand the Discrepancy between Teacher Knowing and Practice
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Emine Gül Çelebi İlhan 1 * , Ayhan Kürşat ERBAŞ 1
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1 Middle East Technical University
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Abstract

Background:
As is well known to all bridging teacher knowledge or learning with practice is not a straightforward task. This paper aims to explore this discrepancy between a mathematics teacher’s knowing and practices and to offer ways of alignment between the two based on the social/interpersonal meanings and their realization through teacher’s discourse.

Material and methods:
In this study we utilized discourse analysis of interpersonal meanings within a high school mathematics class mainly by focusing on the mathematics teacher’s discourse

Results:
We have found that an interpersonal meaning manifested by teacher’s discourse establishes counterproductive social roles and relationships for the knowing/learning to come alive.

Conclusions:
We conclude that the realization of interpersonal meanings can hinder or support the generation of ideas within the classroom: both for teacher’s knowing and student’s mathematical meaning making

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Article Type: Research Article

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1274a

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2016 - Volume 12 Issue 8, pp. 2237-2251

Publication date: 02 Jul 2016

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