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Autobiographical Accounts of Students' Experiences Learning Mathematics: A Review

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Pages 152-164 | Published online: 02 Dec 2016
 

ABSTRACT

In this article, we review published literature that draws on autobiographical accounts of students' experiences learning mathematics. We summarize the main findings of the target literature and present recommendations for further research that will extend this field. Our review indicates that autobiographical and narrative methodological approaches have the potential to occasion important advances in our knowledge of students' experiences learning mathematics. However, relative to accounts of preservice teacher learning, there is a paucity of published research that documents the mathematics learning experiences of kindergarten to Grade 12 students.

RÉSUMÉ

Dans cet article, nous faisons un compte-rendu des publications présentant des récits autobiographiques qui relatent des expériences d'étudiants en situation d'apprentissage des mathématiques. Nous résumons les principaux résultats présentés dans la littérature cible et nous proposons des recommandations de recherches ultérieures susceptibles d'élargir ce champ d'études. Notre compte-rendu indique que les approches méthodologiques de type autobiographique et narratif permettent de réaliser des avancées importantes lorsqu'il s'agit d'améliorer nos connaissances des expériences d'apprentissage des mathématiques chez les étudiants. Toutefois, comparativement aux récits traitant de l'apprentissage des enseignants en formation ou des stagiaires, les recherches qui documentent les expériences d'apprentissage en mathématiques d'élèves de la maternelle à la 12e année sont beaucoup plus rares.

Funding

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Grant # 435-2012-0121. SSHRC exercised no oversight in the design of the research; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; or the writing of this report.

Notes

1. The actual number is reported as 1,496 in the body of these articles but as over 1,600 in the abstract, so we are unsure exactly how many students participated in this research study.

2. These required students to plot an x for each year level (Years 1 to 12), showing how they felt about mathematics that year, with a scale ranging from +5 to −5.

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