Overview
- Discusses early childhood mathematics education empirically, theoretically and methodologically
- Presents methodological views on research on early mathematics learning
- Offers cultural breadth and sustainabilty
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Early Mathematics Education
- Early Childhood Education and Care
- Professional Development of teachers
- Preschool, Kindergarten and Nursery
- Open Access
- curricula for early childhood education
- digital play and learning of mathematics
- problem solving as a mathematical activity
- children’s mathematical and computational thinking
- children’s different understandings about counting
- early childhood education teachers' competencies
- framework “Knowledge Quartet”
- educational technology in mathematics education
- children’s understanding and cognitive skills
- kindergarten teachers’ play-responsive assessment
- the theory of mathematics learning and teaching
- play-oriented early childhood education
- mathematizing
- parents’ views on mathematics education for young children
About this book
This open access book’s theme is Teaching mathematics as to be meaningful – foregrounding children’s play and perspectives. It discusses the relation between teachers, children and mathematical content within the context of play with a particular focus on the framing of these relations within this context, which is an important theme in the debate on whether teaching should be integrated with or separated from children’s play. The work further addresses meaningfulness in the learning process, particularly from the child’s perspective.
Globally, most guidelines and curricula for early childhood education mention play as one of the key features for young children’s learning. Still, there are quite different views on the definitions of play and in what ways play should become part of children’s learning. The chapters of the book mirror the research topics presented at the fifth POEM conference in May 2022 divided into four sub-themes: Play and learning, Children’s perspectives on mathematics, Teachers’ competencies and Theorizing aspects of early mathematics education.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Camilla Björklund is a Professor of Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The focus of her research is mostly mathematics learning in early childhood and teaching involving children aged one to eight years. Essential in her research designs is a starting point in children’s perspectives and how to challenge their ways of understanding some learning object. Her research is thereby directed at developing teaching practice that facilitates children’s developing understanding of mathematics as to be meaningful to the individual child. She has extensive experience of practice-oriented research in collaboration with teachers and has in addition to scientific publications written a large number of books for preschool teacher education.
Jessica Elofsson is a Postdoctoral researcher in the field of Pedagogy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interest is mathematics learning and development of teaching practice in preschool and primary school. Her main focus is intervention research focusing on supporting young children´s early learning and development of mathematical skills.
Elin Reikerås is a Professor in Early Childhood Education and Centre leader of FILIORUM - Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education, at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research interests are on children'searly mathematical development, the relations between early mathematics and other development areas as language, motor-life skills, and social skills as well as the relations between arithmetic’s and reading. She led the interdisciplinary longitudinal Stavanger project, which followed over 1000 children’s development from they were 2 ½ years until they turned 10 year.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Mathematics as to be Meaningful – Foregrounding Play and Children’s Perspectives
Book Subtitle: Results from the POEM5 Conference, 2022
Editors: Hanna Palmér, Camilla Björklund, Elin Reikerås, Jessica Elofsson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37663-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37662-7Published: 28 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37665-8Published: 28 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37663-4Published: 27 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Mathematics Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Education, general