Curriculum Strategy and Contested Commonplaces: A Study of Rural Middle School Mathematics Teacher Attitudes in Curriculum Work
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ohiou14907203640691952021-08-03T07:01:09Z Curriculum Strategy and Contested Commonplaces: A Study of Rural Middle School Mathematics Teacher Attitudes in Curriculum Work Taylor, Jeffrey D. Curricula Education Mathematics Education Middle School Education Rhetoric Sociolinguistics Teacher Education Teaching curriculum curriculum strategy curriculum work mathematics education middle school rural rhetorical analysis phronesis This multiple case study examines the development of teacher curriculum strategies in the selection of tasks for middle school mathematics. Two pairs of rural mathematics teachers—an experienced Grade 7 teacher and her intern, and a pair of second year Grade 8 teachers—provided text logs for the full school year leading up to their state’s first assessment based on the Common Core State Standards (2012), indicating tasks assigned in class and their sources. Tasks were coded for cognitive difficulty, mathematics standard addressed, and time allowed. Each teacher was interviewed five times, for a total of 13 hours of recording, to explore their strategies for selecting assignments. Transcripts of the interviews were analyzed using Burke’s (1954; 1966; 1969a) rhetorical methods to disengage pragmatic “attitudes-as-strategies.” The two case studies trace the development of curriculum strategies, as well as showing how very different strategies for using a new textbook can lead to nearly identical rates of use. Both the experienced teacher and the three novices provide examples of “curriculum irony”: situations in which attitudes about what is best to do are overridden by other attitudes related to the context of the classroom. It may be the case that curriculum irony provides some impetus for the evolution of curriculum strategies. 2017-07-05 English text Ohio University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490720364069195 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490720364069195 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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