Abstract
Conditions that recently threatened the breakdown of social order led the authors to question the role of mathematics in addressing these conditions. In the light of these conditions, this study aimed to explore the tension between the need for pre-service secondary mathematics teachers (PSMTs) to be mathematically proficient and society’s expectations of them to develop skills for critical citizenship. Twenty randomly selected PSMTs from an intact class in a Philippine university participated in three researcher-designed online mathematics lessons covering descriptive statistics, logic and reasoning, and linear functions that addressed the country’s issues which include the government-declared war on drugs, proliferation of fake news, and armed conflicts, respectively. Drawing on online ethnographic practitioner research approach, both quantitative and qualitative data-gathering methods were employed. In the quantitative phase, pre-test-and-post-test single-group design was employed to determine the effectiveness of the lessons in improving PSMTs’ mathematical proficiency. In the qualitative phase, deductive qualitative content analysis was used to determine and categorize the PSMTs’ skills for critical citizenship before and after exposure to the lessons and determine if there was a difference in their skills. Seven categories of critical citizenship were theoretically deduced, though only five were pertinent, to consider PSMTs’ communication of critical citizenship. The findings showed a significant difference in the PSMTs’ mathematical proficiency score before and after the lessons. Moreover, improvement of PSMTs’ skills for critical citizenship were shown. The activities created a communicative space that helped PSMTs develop their critical citizenship without sacrificing their mathematical proficiency.
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Art Walden A. Dejoras, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Catherine P. Vistro-Yu, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Paper Information
Conference: SEACE2023
Stream: Teaching Experiences
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To cite this article:
Dejoras A., & Vistro-Yu C. (2023) Investigating Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Mathematics Proficiency and Critical Citizenship in the Design of Social-Issue-Themed Mathematics Online Lessons ISSN: 2435-5240 The Southeast Asian Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2023.44
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2023.44
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