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Contradictions and their manifestations in professional learning communities in mathematics
Örebro University, School of Science and Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8543-3942
Örebro University, School of Science and Technology.
2022 (English)In: Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, ISSN 1386-4416, E-ISSN 1573-1820, Vol. 25, no 6, p. 697-723Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Professional learning communities (PLC) have increasingly attracted attention in research on teachers' professional development. The aim of this study is to identify contradictions that can occur and be manifested in PLCs in mathematics. Identifying contradictions in PLCs are important, as the identification and resolution of contradictions are crucial to developing PLCs. We have conceptualized PLCs and contradictions within the Cultural Historical Activity Theory. Our data consist of two iterations of interviews with four teacher leader coaches with extensive experience of coaching teacher leaders of PLCs in mathematics. The study distinguishes 26 manifestations of contradictions, taking the overall forms of dilemmas and conflicts. Our results can be used in designing PLCs in mathematics: they can be used to make visible and increase participants' awareness of contradictions involved in PLCs and thereby increase the possibility that the contradictions serve as sources of support rather than obstacles in the development of PLCs in mathematics.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer , 2022. Vol. 25, no 6, p. 697-723
Keywords [en]
Activity systems, Professional learning communities, Contradictions, Manifestations, Mathematics
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Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-93995DOI: 10.1007/s10857-021-09513-4ISI: 000687527400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85113775325OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-93995DiVA, id: diva2:1589997
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Available from: 2021-09-01 Created: 2021-09-01 Last updated: 2022-11-30Bibliographically approved
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1. Kollegialt lärande i matematik: Ett verksamhetsteoretiskt perspektiv
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2021 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In the last decade, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are increasingly used as models for teachers’ joint efforts in developing their teaching. The overall aim of this licentiate thesis is to expand the knowledge of PLCs in mathematics, by deepening the understanding of aspects that influence the establishment, organization, and implementation of PLCs in mathematics. Specifically, the aim is to contribute with an overview of how PLCs in mathematics are organized and framed, and also to explain what may enable and hinder PLCs in mathematics. To fulfill the purpose, two studies are conducted where Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) is used as a conceptual and analytical framework. In the first study, previous research of PLCs in mathematics are synthesized through a configurative literature review, resulting in a description of how PLCs in mathematics are organized and framed. In the study, similarities, and differences between different models of PLCs in mathematics are examined regarding subjects, objects, mediating artifacts, rules, community, division of labor and outcomes. The result shows three different activity systems, with different objects or motives for implementing the PLCs. The activity systems vary concerning the use of mediating artifacts, and what norms regulate the activity system, but are similar regarding participants, context, and division of labor. In the second study, contradictions, and their manifestations in PLCs in mathematics are analyzed. Contradictions may enable or hinder the work of PLCs depending on whether they are identified or not. Contradictions, and their manifestations, are in the study examined through interviews with teacher leader coaches with experience in coaching teacher leaders of PLCs in mathematics. In the study, four contradictions, in and between activity systems, are identified. These four contradictions are manifested through 26 conflicts and dilemmas. The identified contradictions are connected to the norms and traditions that are part of mathematics as a discipline as well as the teacher profession. Taken together, the result of the two studies can be useful in establishing, organizing, and implementing future PLC endeavors.

Abstract [sv]

Kollegialt lärande har det senaste decenniet blivit väletablerat i skolans värld som modell för lärargemensam undervisningsutveckling. Det övergripande syftet med den här licentiatavhandlingen är öka kunskapen om kollegialt lärande i matematik genom att fördjupa förståelsen för aspekter som kan påverka etablering, organisering och genomförande av kollegialtl ärande i matematik. Mer specifikt är syftet att bidra med en kunskapsöversikt över hur kollegialt lärande i matematik kan organiseras och inramas, samt att hitta möjliga förklaringar till vad som möjliggör och vad som hindrar kollegialt lärande i matematik. Detta görs genom två studier där verksamhetsteori använts för att konceptualisera och analysera kollegialtl ärande. I den första studien sammanställs tidigare publicerade studier om kollegialt lärande i matematik i en konfigurativ litteraturstudie, vilket resulterar i en kunskapsöversikt över hur kollegialt lärande i matematik kan organiseras och inramas. I studien analyseras likheter och skillnader mellan olika metoder för kollegialt lärande i matematik med avseende på de verksamhetsteoretiska begreppen subjekt, objekt, medierande artefakter, regler, gemenskap, arbetsdelning och utfall. Tre olika objekt, det vill säga motiv för att genomföra kollegialt lärande, identifieras som konstituerar tre olika verksamhetssystem, där objekt, normer och medierande artefakter skiljer sig åt. Subjekt, arbetsdelning och gemenskap är lika mellan de tre verksamhetssystemen. I den andra studien analyseras vilka motsättningar, det vill säga oförenligheter, som manifesteras i kollegiala lärgrupper i matematik. Motsättningar kan hindra eller möjliggöra kollegialt lärande beroende på om de identifieras eller inte. Motsättningar och deras manifesteringar har studerats genom att lärledarcoacher, som coachat lärledare för kollegialt lärande i matematik, intervjuas. I studien identifieras fyra motsättningar inom och mellan verksamhetssystem, manifesterade genom 26 konflikter och dilemman. De identifierade motsättningarna är sprungna ur matematikämnets och läraryrkets traditioner och normer. De två studiernas resultat sammantaget kan vara användbart vid organisering och genomförande av framtida kollegiala lärprojekt.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Örebro: Örebro University, 2021. p. 92
Series
Örebro Studies in Mathematics ; 3
Keywords
Activity system, Contradictions, Cultural Historical Activity Theory, PLCs in mathematics, mathematics education, Kollegialt lärande, kollegialt lärande i matematik, matematikdidaktik, motsättningar, verksamhetssystem, verksamhetsteori
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Other Mathematics
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urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-95683 (URN)9789175294155 (ISBN)
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2021-12-13, T141, Fakultetsgatan 1, Örebro, 13:15 (Swedish)
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