Abstract

DIEZ-PALOMAR, Javier; MENENDEZ, José María  and  CIVIL, Marta. Learning mathematics with adult learners: drawing from parents' perspective. Relime [online]. 2011, vol.14, n.1, pp.71-94. ISSN 2007-6819.

This article explores issues related to the relationship between everyday mathematics and academic mathematics within adult education, through a series of workshops with parents. Participants were encouraged to reflect on their perspective on learning and teaching mathematics through different activities in the workshops. All sessions were videotaped. Our analy sis of multiple episodes revealed three topics: contextualization, transferring the mathematical knowledge, and sense making. We use three vignettes to illustrate these topics. Our study implications for adult education focus on mathematics as a situated practice produced as a consequence of interaction among learners in egalitarian spaces.

Keywords : Parents' involvement; mathematics; adult learners.

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