Jérôme Proulx

School Experience During Pre-Service Teacher Education from the Students’ Perspective

A challenge for teacher education is to understand how pre-service teachers learn from experience in multiple contexts- especially when their own schooling, the university methods course, and their practicum experiences can produce conflicting images of teaching. This chapter examines how pre-service teachers interpret their school experiences in the light of their university pre-service courses, their personal histories, knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes, and the specific constraints of the school environment.

A Tale of Two Researchers: Commonalities, Complementarities, and Contrasts in an Examination of Mental Computation and Relational Thinking

This paper describes a research collaboration between an educational psychologist and a mathematics education researcher, namely a didacticien des mathematiques. Our joint project aimed to explore the mental computation strategies of preservice teachers in an elementary mathematics methods course and to investigate the relationship between mental computation and relational thinking. The primary objective of the paper, however, is to go beyond the data and their interpretation. We describe the commonalities, complementarities, and points of contrast that emerged between us as researchers who hail from different disciplines, but who have the same overarching interests in mathematical thinking. In particular, we untangle issues we encountered during our collaboration related to our research questions, methodologies, and epistemological stances. We detail the ways in which we navigated these issues in the context of the research and describe what we learned about our own disciplinary perspectives and each other’s. We conclude by discussing what our story offers as a means of reflecting on our individual fields and potential interactions between them.

Topic Study Group No. 27: Learning and Cognition in Mathematics

Deakin Research Online, Deakin University’s Research Repository Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B Topic study group no. 27: learning and cognition in mathematics Citation: Williams, Gaynor, Van Dooren, Wim, Dartnell, Pablo, Lindmeier, Anke and Proulx, Jérôme 2017, Topic study group no. 27: learning and cognition in mathematics, in ICME-13 : Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 501505. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62597-3_54