Adults Learning Mathematics: Transcending Boundaries and Barriers in an Uncertain World

Autor/in	FitzSimons, Gail E.
Titel	Adults Learning Mathematics: Transcending Boundaries and Barriers in an Uncertain World
Quelle	In: Adults Learning Mathematics, 14 (2019) 1, S.41-52 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-1803
Schlagwörter	Adult Learning; Mathematics Instruction; Adult Education; Teacher Competencies; Mathematics Teachers; Learning Motivation; Democracy; Teaching Methods; Informal Education; Employment Qualifications; Knowledge Level; Music + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Lehrkunst; Mathematics; Teacher; Teachers; Mathematik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Demokratie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Wissensbasis; Musik
Abstract	Adults return to study mathematics for a range of varied and complex reasons. This article addresses the boundaries and barriers that adult learners of mathematics may have faced in the past, or in the present and the future. Taking into account the impact of our era of rapid technological change, I argue for the importance of developing structural understanding of disciplinary mathematics together with the equally important contextual knowledge and skills necessary for understanding and engaging with mathematics in often vastly different circumstances from the past. The goal is for adult learners to feel confident, socially included, and able to participate in the mathematical activities with which they are confronted over a lifetime. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Adults Learning Mathematics. 26 Tennyson Road, Kilburn, London NW6 7SA UK. e-mail: editor-i@alm-online.net; Web site: http://www.alm-online.net
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01