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Reform efforts in science and mathematics education highlight students’ experiences and sensemaking repertoires as valuable resources for instruction. Yet, there is much to learn about how to cultivate teachers’ capacity for eliciting, understanding, and responding to students’ contributions. We argue that the first step of this cultivation is teachers’ learning to listen: to attune and attend to the novel ways that students make sense of scientific phenomena and the natural world. While this notion of listening as critical to teaching is intuitive, the work behind it can be challenging. As such, this study explores promises and tensions of learning to listen through the journey of one pre-service teacher and examines her shifting views on teaching as related to her reflective practice around the work of listening. Focusing on listening as a core tenet of teaching, we discuss implications for teacher education to center listening as an instructional target for teacher learning in science and mathematics education.
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Listening being to recognize and relieve harm in mathematics teaching
Mathematics teaching routinely traumatizes students. Why, and what changes can we make so this is not so? Lipari (2009) argues that the ethical call of conscience is not a speaking, but a listening. We draw on her conceptions of listening otherwise and listening being to see and intervene in dynamics of potential harm in mathematics teaching. We analyse six cases for three features: attention to difference, prioritizing of compassion, and openness to self-transcendence. Our analysis reveals that teaching in these short episodes is uniformly listening oriented or speaking oriented, with speaking- oriented teaching common even when teaching engages students actively in discussion. Further, our analysis suggests mechanisms for routinely disrupting patterns of harm in mathematics teaching.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1760788
- PAR ID:
- 10543210
- Publisher / Repository:
- HAL Id: hal-04398375
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Teaching, justice, listening, enactment, issues.
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Budapest, Hungary
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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