Western educational researchers have eagerly accepted activity theory (AT) also known as
cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) to collect and analyze data in rich description of …

This article considers the question of what specific actions a teacher might take to create a
culture of inquiry in a secondary school mathematics classroom. Sociocultural theories of …

Dialogue and Learning in Mathematics Education is concerned with communication in
mathematics class-rooms. In a series of empirical studies of project work, we follow students' …

The purpose of this paper was to review literature on the Cultural Historical Activity Theory
(CHAT) and how it has been used to understand the mediation between emerging …

This chapter is about culture and mathematics teaching and learning. Our goal is to offer a
thoughtful treatment of the role of culture in the teaching and learning of mathematics and to …

Many pupils find it difficult to express ideas in mathematics because of problems with the
language that is used to convey mathematical concepts. This book shows teachers how to …

materials encompassed by Continuing the Learning Journey were produced for
schools,(QCA, 2005). This has been welcomed by Early Years professionals as the …

Teaching approaches in mathematics classrooms have been changed to a more insight-
based problem oriented process during the last decade (van Oers, 2002). In addition …

We report a follow-up study on seven arm amputees in whom magnetic source imaging had
originally revealed a strong correlation between the amount of cortical invasion of the …

Student opposition in school is traditionally cast in terms of individual dispositions, whereby
particular students or groups of students are said to “resist” or “oppose” school structures …