Research for Educational Change

Taylor & Francis

Research for Educational ChangeTransforming researchers' insights into improvement in mathematics teaching and learning\nAuthor(s): Jill Adler, Anna Sfard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138187320, 978-1138187320\nSynopsis\nResearch for Educational Change presents ways in which educational research can fulfil its commitments to educational practice. Focussing its discussion within the context of mathematics education, it argues that while research-generated insights can have beneficial effects on learning and teaching, the question of how these effects are to be generated and sustained is far from evident. The question of how to turn research into educational improvement is discussed here in the context of learning and teaching hindered by poverty and social injustice. \n\nIn the first part of the book, four teams of researchers use different methodologies while analysing the same corpus of data, collected in a .