Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying our Spring Break week from class (taking the place of the February Reading Week. I have been following the comments added to the article on math education and technology for our virtual class, and I'm happy to see that things are off to a good start. Please do remember to participate in our virtual class between now and our next face-to-face class on April 6, and check the instructions on the blog posting about how you are expected to participate.
Several people have asked for more information about the long paper for class. Here are some further details -- and don't hesitate to contact me if you need information on anything I may have omitted!
From our course outline:
Long paper (to be submitted as an email attachment by 9AM on the day of Class 13. Peer review by classmate one week before.) Approximately 4,000 words.
Following up on your short paper, choose a research theme in mathematics education (preferably the same one used in your first paper, but could be different with instructor’s permission). Write a critical review of research in this area, considering work from the 1980s or earlier up to the present. Your review should review approximately eight key works, which should come from a variety of authors, major journals and conference proceedings. Your paper should consider work on this topic in chronological context and in light of the authors’ own positioning. (50%)
Additional information: Your long paper for this course is intended to be a first go at the literature review for your thesis, graduating paper or dissertation, taking into consideration the breadth of major work in mathematics education relating to your area of interest and topic. So it should show a consideration of the history of research in this area (as this is a course in Foundations of Mathematics Education) as well as more contemporary work related to your interests. You should also include articles from the four major sources used in your short paper (PME proceedings, FLM, ESM and JRME), but you can also include articles from other journals, books and conference proceedings.
Your topic can be more focused than in your first paper, but should relate fairly closely to the first paper. If you would like to change to an entirely different topic for some reason, please email me to give a rationale for the change and get approval for the new topic.
You may use any or all of the four articles from the short paper if that is helpful, or you could go with eight entirely new articles if you choose to. You can refer to things you wrote in the short paper and even quote yourself (briefly), but the long paper should not include the entire short paper. It must be a new piece of writing that integrates all eight articles in a literature review.
You may want to refer to the outline of a typical thesis or dissertation Review of Literature as outlined on our EDCP webpages. Here is a version of that outline relevant to this paper:
• Briefly outline the major headings and issues that you will be addressing in the paper. Discuss the context of the research problem you will be considering and why it matters to you.
Several people have asked for more information about the long paper for class. Here are some further details -- and don't hesitate to contact me if you need information on anything I may have omitted!
From our course outline:
Long paper (to be submitted as an email attachment by 9AM on the day of Class 13. Peer review by classmate one week before.) Approximately 4,000 words.
Following up on your short paper, choose a research theme in mathematics education (preferably the same one used in your first paper, but could be different with instructor’s permission). Write a critical review of research in this area, considering work from the 1980s or earlier up to the present. Your review should review approximately eight key works, which should come from a variety of authors, major journals and conference proceedings. Your paper should consider work on this topic in chronological context and in light of the authors’ own positioning. (50%)
Additional information: Your long paper for this course is intended to be a first go at the literature review for your thesis, graduating paper or dissertation, taking into consideration the breadth of major work in mathematics education relating to your area of interest and topic. So it should show a consideration of the history of research in this area (as this is a course in Foundations of Mathematics Education) as well as more contemporary work related to your interests. You should also include articles from the four major sources used in your short paper (PME proceedings, FLM, ESM and JRME), but you can also include articles from other journals, books and conference proceedings.
Your topic can be more focused than in your first paper, but should relate fairly closely to the first paper. If you would like to change to an entirely different topic for some reason, please email me to give a rationale for the change and get approval for the new topic.
You may use any or all of the four articles from the short paper if that is helpful, or you could go with eight entirely new articles if you choose to. You can refer to things you wrote in the short paper and even quote yourself (briefly), but the long paper should not include the entire short paper. It must be a new piece of writing that integrates all eight articles in a literature review.
You may want to refer to the outline of a typical thesis or dissertation Review of Literature as outlined on our EDCP webpages. Here is a version of that outline relevant to this paper:
• Briefly outline the major headings and issues that you will be addressing in the paper. Discuss the context of the research problem you will be considering and why it matters to you.
• Make sure that this is a critical review where you comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the articles or books.
• As in the short paper, give a brief summary of the main points of each article, your 'stops' in it that are relevant to your research question, and how this article relates to other articles you are reviewing in light of your research interests. In other words, have a written conversation with each of these articles and among these articles, and use this conversation to clarify where you stand on the issues in relation to what has been done before.
• Use this review to make an argument for why you are doing your study. Possible arguments might be: a) there is a lack of literature in the area; b) there are conflicting reports in the literature and clarification is required; your work is an extension of existing studies in terms of scope and context.
• Be sure to include the literature regarding any theoretical perspectives you are using in your
study. Make a connection between these perspectives and your own study.
• Use this review to make an argument for why you are doing your study. Possible arguments might be: a) there is a lack of literature in the area; b) there are conflicting reports in the literature and clarification is required; your work is an extension of existing studies in terms of scope and context.
• Be sure to include the literature regarding any theoretical perspectives you are using in your
study. Make a connection between these perspectives and your own study.
Hope this is helpful -- please let me know!
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