Becoming more numerate: the journey of Tania
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Paper/Presentation Title | Becoming more numerate: the journey of Tania |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Galligan, Linda |
Editors | Sparrow, Len, Kissane, Barry and Hurst, Chris |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA33) |
ERA Conference ID | 50230 |
Journal Citation | 1, pp. 193-201 |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2010 |
Place of Publication | Sydney, Australia |
ISBN | 9781920846251 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.merga.net.au/documents/MERGA33_Galligan.pdf |
Conference/Event | 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA33) |
Annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia | |
Event Details | 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA33) Parent Annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Delivery In person Event Date 03 to end of 07 Jul 2010 Event Location Fremantle, Australia |
Event Details | Annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia MERGA Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Conference (MERGA) |
Abstract | This is the academic numeracy journey of Tania, who participated in a research study that investigated the academic numeracy skills of nursing students. Tania is a mature aged woman, and her story represents many of such mature aged students as they journey into a largely unknown university culture. The data for this research came from student assignments, surveys, interview transcripts, emails and screencasts. To see the development in Tania's numeracy, this paper utilises the micro- and macrogenetic models from Valsiner, and his approach to dialogic self. We see Tania in different I-positions in particular of becoming a university student, becoming a nursing student and becoming numerate i.e. as being able to use mathematics confidently and competently in a nursing context. |
Keywords | numeracy; university; nursing training; higher education research |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520102. Educational psychology |
390109. Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Department of Mathematics and Computing |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9zz4q/becoming-more-numerate-the-journey-of-tania
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