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Do cultural norms influence how teacher noticing is studied in different cultural contexts? A focus on expert norms of responding to students’ mathematical thinking

  • As an important component of teaching expertise, teacher noticing is gaining growing attention in our intercultural mathematics education community. However, it is likely that in many cases the researchers’ perspectives on what characterizes high instructional quality in mathematics classrooms shape what they expect teachers to notice. In particular, it is an open question how potentially different norms of instructional quality influence how teacher noticing is operationalized in East Asian and Western cultures. Consequently, in a first step, this bicultural research project on teacher noticing in Taiwan and Germany focuses on exploring the researchers’ frames of reference for investigating teacher noticing. In this paper, we thus propose a concurrent process for developing vignettes and eliciting corresponding expert norms as a prerequisite to investigating teacher noticing in a way that is sensitive to different cultural contexts. In this process, the research teams in both countries developed in parallel, text vignettes in which, from their perspective, a breach of a norm regarding a specific aspect of instructional quality was integrated. In an online expert survey, these vignettes were then presented to German and Taiwanese researchers in mathematics education (19 from each country) to investigate whether these experts recognize the integrated breach of a norm. This approach allows researchers to identify potentially different norms of instructional quality in mathematics classrooms. In particular, by means of a specific representation of practice, it became visible how expert norms of responding to students’ mathematical thinking can be different from a Taiwanese compared to a German perspective.

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Author:Anika DreherORCiD, Anke Lindmeier, Paul Feltes, Ting-Ying Wang, Feng-Jui Hsieh
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:frei129-opus4-20341
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-020-01197-z
ISSN:1863-9690
ISSN:1863-9704
Parent Title (English):ZDM – Mathematics Education
Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2021/04/01
Release Date:2023/05/25
Tag:Cross-cultural design; Cultural norms; Instructional quality; Responding to students’ mathematical thinking; Teacher noticing; Validity
GND Keyword:-
Volume:53
Issue:1
First Page:165
Last Page:179
Open Access:Frei zugänglich
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International