Chinese Journal of Science Education


Vol. 13 No. 1 , Pages 53 - 70 , 2005

Student Teachers Use of a Knowledge Web to Learning Mathematics Teaching: The Link of Theory and Practice (Article written in Chinese)

Yuan-Shun LEE

Abstract

The researcher constructed a Knowledge Web of Mathematics Teachers (KWMT) on the Internet as a source of links to theories and practices for mathematics teacher education. The researcher also constructed a learning environment presenting the curriculum of primary school mathematics teaching and methods that could help student teachers to learn mathematics teaching. The study investigated whether student teachers can learn teaching practices from theories in this leaning environment, and how this leaning environment can act as a bridge to theories and practices in teacher education. We found that student teachers can learn teaching practices from theories, can understand the keyword of teachers teaching and its meaning when they learn mathematics teaching. The learning environment can act as a bridge to link theories and practices because student teachers use social interaction to comment on teaching practices from theories, can use rational arguments in discussing teaching issues or teaching policies, can reflect on their own learning or teaching experiments, and can learn mathematics teaching knowledge. The learning environment that the researcher constructed can act as a bridge to link of theories and practices because it contained suitable learning experiences, promoted future awareness and reflection, offered theoretical notions from empirical research, and encouraged students to act in a productive manner.

Keywords: E-learning; mathematics teacher education; knowledge Web

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