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Navigating Numeracies

Home/School Numeracy Practices

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Editors:
  1. Brian Street

    1. Department of Continuing Education and Professional Development, King’s College, London, UK

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  2. Dave Baker

    1. Inst. Education, University of London, London, UK

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  3. Alison Tomlin

    1. Department of Education and Professional Studies, King’s College, London, UK

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  • Has taken an unusual perspective to understand the long and persistent tail of under-achievement in school mathematics by taking a social practice approach to investigate relationships between home and school numeracy practices
  • Draws upon detailed case studies of children’s numeracy practices at home and at school

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. The Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Explanations for Underachievement

      Pages 3-11

  3. Theory and Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Theoretical Positions

      Pages 15-24

    3. Methodology

      Pages 25-33

  4. Introduction to the Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-37
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    2. Children Case Studies

      Pages 39-77

    3. School Case Studies

      Pages 79-113

  5. Themes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-116
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    2. Numeracy Practices at School

      Pages 117-128

    3. Numeracy Practices at Home

      Pages 129-143

    4. Numeracy Practices

      Pages 145-162

    5. Conclusion

      Pages 163-169

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 171-218
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About this book

Abstract. This introduction sets the scene for the remainder of the book by considering first the international context of widespread concern about the improvement of numeracy skills. This is related to reform movements in the UK, the US and other countries aimed at modernising primary (elementary) school mathematics curricula. A detailed account is given of the National Numeracy Strategy in England, a systemic government-imposed response to concern about standards implemented in 1999/2000. This includes a discussion of the alternative meanings of numeracy. An earlier initiative sponsored by a UK charitable trust reacting to concern about primary numeracy was the Leverhulme Numeracy Research Programme. This large-scale longitudinal study and linked set of case-study projects, focusing on reasons for low attainment, took place during 1997-2002. This book, and each other in the same series, is based on results of that research. The timescale fortuitously enabled the research team to also report on some effects of the systemic reform in the National Numeracy Strategy. 1. THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT In many countries, there are recurring periods of national concern about the low standards of calculation skills shown by children in primary (elementary) schools. Recently these concerns have become more urgent and more political with the publication of international comparisons of mathematical achievement, first at secondary and more recently at primary level (e. g. Lapointe, Mead et al. 1992; Mullis et al. , 1997).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Continuing Education and Professional Development, King’s College, London, UK

    Brian Street

  • Inst. Education, University of London, London, UK

    Dave Baker

  • Department of Education and Professional Studies, King’s College, London, UK

    Alison Tomlin

About the editors

Dave Baker studied mathematics before becoming a teacher of mathematics in schools. He taught on teacher education programmes and then undertook research into teaching and learning mathematics in schools and its links to children’s homes. He has focused on issues of social justice in mathematics and has sought to extend current developments in pedagogy towards widening access and to the need to transform dominant practices in schooling. He has published two books, presented at many conferences and published academic papers on mathematics education.

Prof. Street trained in anthropology and has a longstanding commitment to linking ethnographic-style research on the cultural dimension of language and literacy with contemporary practice in education and in development. He has engaged in this in a number of countries - USA, S. Africa, Nepal, India, Iran etc. and has published 12 books and over 80 academic articles in international contexts. He has recently worked with colleagues in mathematics education to consider the implications of these approaches for numeracy research, pedagogy and curriculum.

Dr. Alison Tomlin has worked as a teacher and manager in adult literacy and numeracy community education settings, and as a manager of an inner city adult education programme which sought to be responsive to demand for education from local communities. Following doctoral research in adult numeracy education organised in collaboration with a group of students of adult numeracy, she was a researcher with the home/school numeracy practices team, and is now researching in adult numeracy. She has published articles relating to home/school numeracy practices research and to adult literacy and numeracy education.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Navigating Numeracies

  • Book Subtitle: Home/School Numeracy Practices

  • Editors: Brian Street, Dave Baker, Alison Tomlin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3677-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3676-7Published: 22 November 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5706-9Published: 27 August 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3677-4Published: 14 March 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 218

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Teaching and Teacher Education

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