ERIC Number: EJ1040883
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Jun
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ISSN: ISSN-1033-2170
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Analysing the Implemented Curriculum of Mathematics in Preschool Education
Zacharos, Konstantinos; Koustourakis, Gerasimos; Papadimitriou, Konstantina
Mathematics Education Research Journal, v26 n2 p151-167 Jun 2014
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to development of research tools for observation and analysis of educational practices used by teachers in preschool classrooms. More specifically, we approached the implemented curriculum of mathematics in Greek preschool education. We analysed the recorded data from a week of teaching practices in eight classrooms of Greek public kindergartens, based on Bernstein's theoretical framework on pedagogic discourse. The results showed that the actual educational practices in the observed classrooms deviated from the objectives of the official new cross-thematic curriculum for teaching mathematics in Greek kindergarten in terms of the form of transmitted mathematical knowledge, the instructional rules and strategies that teachers adopted for teaching mathematics, and the teaching-interactive relationships between preschool teachers and students.
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Curriculum Implementation, Mathematics, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Research Tools, Kindergarten, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Educational Objectives, Interaction, Teacher Student Relationship, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Observation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education; Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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