TSG 24 - Students motivation and attitudes towards mathematics teachers

TSG 24: Students’ motivation and attitudes towards mathematics and its study

Team Chairs
Philip C. Clarkson, Australian Catholic University
Address: 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Locked Bag 4115 , Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia
p.clarkson@patrick.acu.edu.au

Markku S. Hannula, Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku
Address: Kuusikallionkuja 3 C 44, 02210 Espoo, Finland
markku.hannula@zpg.fi

Team Members
Astrid Brinkmann, Faculty of Science, University of Duisburg, Germany
astrid.brinkmann@uni-duisburg.de, astrid.brinkman@math-edu.de

Gudbjörg Pálsdottir, Iceland University of Education, Iceland
gudbjorg@ismennt.is

Tim Rowland, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
tr202@cam.ac.uk

Aims and Focus

Call for Papers

Practical Information

Programme

Papers and Discussion Documents

Aims and Focus

The Topic Study Group 24, “Students’ motivation and attitudes towards mathematics and its study” invites all those interested in the role of affect in mathematics education. Motivation and attitude in the name of the group should be interpreted in the broadest sense of these terms. Hence, we invite discussion on all areas of affect: motivation, emotions, beliefs, confidence, values, attitudes, needs, goals, and volition as they appear in mathematics classrooms. The main focus of our group is students’ affect in school context.

Affect has been a topic of interest in mathematics education research for different reasons and from different perspectives. One branch of study has focused on the role of emotions in mathematical thinking generally, and in problem solving in particular. Another branch has focused on the role of affect in learning, and yet another on the role of affect in the social context of the classroom. Affective variables can be seen as indicative of learning outcomes or as predictive of future success. The different research perspectives that have been used in the study of affect include psychological, social, philosophical, and linguistic. We welcome all these and still other perspectives.

The aim of the TSG24 is to generate discussion around this broad field of related phenomena with a special emphasis on the practitioners (teacher’s / teacher educator’s) needs.

We shall engage interested participants into the review process prior to the conference and nominate respondent to all presentations in order to enable deeper levels of critical discussion during the conference. The activities of the group during the conference will include few lecture-type presentations and the centre of attention will be in discussions around accepted papers.

Key words: affect, attitude, beliefs, conceptions, confidence, emotion, goals, motivation, needs, values, volition.

Call for Papers

The organisers for Topic Study Group 24, “Students’ motivation and attitudes towards mathematics and its study” invite research-based papers on affect in mathematics education, including the role of motivation, beliefs, attitudes, values and emotions. We encourage papers from researchers world-wide and are particularly interested in papers that relate theory into practice.

Based on the received proposals the Organizing Team of TSG24 will compose the program. Please keep in mind that Congress policy is that each individual is restricted to one major speaking appearance. The program of TSG24 is thus subject to final approval by the IPC of ICME-10.

The Organising Team intends to edit a special issue of an international journal with selected papers accepted for TSG24.

The review process

In TSG24 we will use a peer review system and provide an opportunity for participants to develop their papers through the review process. All contributors are expected to review 2-3 of the other papers and we welcome also non-contributors to volunteer as reviewers. Guidelines for review will be sent to reviewers along with the papers to be reviewed. Based on the reviews, the organising team will

(a) accept the paper for an oral presentation,

(b) accept the paper for presentation by distribution,

(c) accept the paper for either oral presentation or presentation through distribution, but require the author(s) to revise their paper, or

(d) reject the paper.

In cases (a), (b), and (c), the authors are expected to develop their papers based on the reviews and the paper will be published on the TSG24 website before the Congress. Authors may also bring paper copies to be distributed at the conference.

Guidelines for proposals

Proposals should be in English and should have the following content:

- title
- name(s) and e-mail addresses of the author(s)
- institution, country
- abstract (max 10 lines)
- the main text
- references
- appendices

The length of the paper may be 4 – 12 pages (including references and appendices). Please use the space economically – a long paper is not necessary more valuable than a short paper.

For submissions, please use the same format as for PME:
·          A4 paper, size 21 cm x 29.7 cm
·          Margins should be set at 2.5 cm top and 2.5 cm bottom; 2 cm left and 2 cm right.
·          All text should be Times. Sizes are 14 point for normal text and 13 point for quotes, transcripts and references.
·          Use 16 point line spacing and 6 points between paragraphs.
·          Use no more than three levels of headings:
o               TITLE: uppercase 16 point, HEADING 2: uppercase 14 point and Heading 3: lowercase 14 point.

A template available at http://home.hia.no/~annebf/pme28/download.htm

Proposals should be submitted electronically to Team Chairs. Proposals received will be acknowledged upon reception.

If you have further questions, please contact any of the team chairs or team members.

Practical Information