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Yang, Kai-Lin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
This study used phenomenography, a qualitative method, to investigate Taiwanese mathematics teachers' conceptions of school mathematics, school statistics, and their differences. To collect data, we interviewed five mathematics teachers by open questions. They also responded to statements drawn on mathematical/statistical conceptions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Phenomenology
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Acquah, Emmanuel O.; Palonen, Tuire; Lehtinen, Erno; Laine, Kaarina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The focus of our study is social status among first graders. In particular, we will consider the relationship between acceptance and rejection, and how these are connected to three social behavioral traits: bullying, victimization, and social withdrawal. The data set is from peer nominations of 748 children from 49 classrooms in the southwest of…
Descriptors: Social Status, Profiles, Grade 1, Social Behavior
Holmqvist, Mona; Tullgren, Charlotte – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
Research on learning has shown the importance of the learner's possibilities to discern what differs as well as what is similar when meeting new phenomena. But how does this kind of understanding develop when young children try to understand their environment in natural settings? The results of Tolchinsky's research (2003) about young children's…
Descriptors: Numbers, Young Children, Arithmetic, Emergent Literacy