Learning from the Eastern and the Western debate: the case of mathematics teacher education.

Autor/inn/en	Kaiser, Gabriele; Blömeke, Sigrid
Titel	Learning from the Eastern and the Western debate: the case of mathematics teacher education.
Quelle	In: ZDM : mathematics education, 45 (2013) 1, S. 7-19 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1863-9690; 1863-9704
DOI	10.1007/s11858-013-0490-x
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Erfahrung; Vergleichende Forschung; Lehrer; Lehrerbildung; Lernen; Mathematikunterricht; Internationaler Studiengang; Differenz; Effektivität; Ostasien
Abstract	Comparative studies have gained significant influence in the last decades, and school systems of many countries have been revised referring to better results of other countries in international large-scale assessments. Authors of such studies commonly link their interpretations of the results to distinctions between Eastern and Western cultures, in particular with respect to the consistent and continuing outstanding performance of East Asian learners compared with their Western counterparts. One question is whether the same achievement pattern holds for future teachers and whether similar cultural differences may cause it. International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M) was the first comparative study that focused on the outcomes of teacher education with standardised testing. In this paper - based on the TEDS-M results - commonalities and differences in the achievement of future teachers from Eastern and Western countries are explored and related to a cultural perspective. Cultural differences between Eastern and Western approaches concerning mathematics, mathematics education and mathematics teachers are analysed with respect to the achievement pattern. The paper closes with reflections on possible consequences concerning the development of teachers' knowledge and teachers' expertise in mathematics education.
Erfasst von	FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur
Update	2013/4