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Luogo: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Università degli studi di Bergamo, via Salvecchio 19, 24129 Bergamo, Italia
Tipo: Conferenza
Mathematics teacher professional development in Prison: first reflections from the LeMP project
Chiara Giberti, Sara Cecchetti, Andrea Maffia, Luca Decembrotto, Gabriella Pocalana
Learning Math in Prison is an interventionist “educational design research” project (McKenney & Reeves, 2018). Its aim is twofold, both theoretical and practical. Learning Math in Prison responds to the needs expressed by mathematics teachers in prison to have adequate training and to have teaching materials suitable for the context in which they are working.
A response to such needs requires theoretical elaboration since research about the teaching/learning of mathematics in prison is very scarce at the international level and almost nonexistent in Italy (Maffia & Decembrotto, 2022). First, descriptive research is needed to frame the specificity of the development of mathematical literacy within the context of Italian prisons. Then, design principles and recommendations for an inclusive education still need to be developed and tested on the field (Lizzola et al., 2017).
Within Learning Math in Prison, organized sets of mathematical tasks are co-constructed by researchers and teachers collaborating together. Researchers will inform teachers about possible solutions available in literature, such as UDL (e.g. Meyer et al., 2014); teachers will contribute with their experience of teaching mathematics in the specific context of prisons. Along the process of design, the researchers will develop design principles to be used for the production of further materials and for teachers training.
Through the repetition of several cycles of context-analysis, design, and evaluation of products, the project will provide design principles for mathematics education in the prison context (as theoretical outcome) and examples of such principles in various learning units (as practical outcome).
In this contribution, we present the project and we report the preliminary results of the first cycle, particularly regarding the context-analysis conducted giving voice directly to the teachers working in the prison context.
Acknowledgement
Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) - Mission 4 Education and research - Component 2 From research to business - Investment 1.1 Notice Prin 2022 - DD N. 104 del 2/2/2022, from title "Learning math in prison: educational design in context of multi-complexity", proposal code 20223F9SRE – CUP J53D2301115 0001 [J53D23011150 001 - F53D2300612 0001 - J53D23011160 001]
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