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Title:

Teacher as a key element of the educational environment of a young child in mathematics education

Creator:

Dobrowolska, Małgorzata

Subject and Keywords:

early school education ; mathematics ; math for children ; math teacher ; preschool education teacher ; young child

Abstract:

Mathematics occupies a special position in the contemporary education. As a common language of man and nature, it is a crucial subject for the student’s future career in a world dominated by technology. On the other hand, it plays a social function adequate for its royal title: as befits a true queen, it ennobles or degrades, perpetuates the existing hierarchy or reshuffles it, punishes and rewards, disciplines and liberates. Research shows that a small child is a born mathematician, and a vast majority of kindergarten children show predispositions to learning this subject. Despite this fact, a widely shared belief sees mathematics as a knowledge for the chosen ones, and similar surveys, carried out for older pupils, seem to confirm this notion. In this paper, we propose a way out of this apparent paradox, by re-defining the role of a teacher in the mathematical education of a small child.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2017

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISBN 978-83-62618-30-9

DOI:

10.34616/22.19.054

Language:

pol

Relation:

Dziecko w sytuacjach uczenia się, s. 217-225

Access rights:

Rules of usage of Digital Library of Wroclaw University

License:

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Rights holder:

© Copyright by Małgorzata Dobrowolska

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Instytutu Pedagogiki UWr

Autor opisu:

h.w.