DEMISSIE, Ayal, POVEY, Hilary and ADAMS, Gill (2019). What are the affordances and limitations of the philosophy for Children (P4C) pedagogy for teaching and learning mathematics? In: CURTIS, F., (ed.) Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics. BSRLM. [Book Section]
Abstract
The increased emphasis on pupils' reasoning capabilities in primary
mathematics foregrounds conceptual understanding and associated skills
and dispositions (such as critical thinking, conjecturing, evaluating and
evidencing). In the absence of pedagogical approaches to support this
curriculum change, P4C offers an approach that can enable teachers to
support pupils' reasoning and conceptual understanding. In this workshop,
we reflected on the use of the P4C pedagogy in the Project for Citizenship
and Mathematics (PiCaM), a European Erasmus project in global
citizenship and mathematics education. In particular, we explored the
affordances and limitations of the P4C pedagogy in addressing global
learning and mathematics education that also reflects ongoing debates
within the P4C community and raised questions about the extent to which
it may support either a neo-liberal interpretation of citizenship and global
competence and / or a critical citizenship linked to affirmative politics.
We considered the implications of this approach for social justice.
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