Are There National Patterns of Teaching? Evidence from the TIMSS 1999 Video Study
Are There National Patterns of Teaching? Evidence from the TIMSS 1999 Video Study
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是否有全国性的教学模式?
DOI:
10.1086/430260
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
R. Gallimore
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文献类型:
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作者:
Karen B. Givvin;J. Hiebert;Jennifer Jacobs;Hilary Hollingsworth;R. Gallimore
Why do teachers today teach as they do, and why has teaching evolved in the way that it has evolved? In order to improve teaching, it is important to understand why teaching looks the way that it now does and how its general form can be explained. One way to address this question is at the classroom level. This approach has been found in the ethnographic work of anthropologists and has been skillfully applied in the recent work of such researchers as Robin Alexander and Kathryn Anderson-Levitt. In this article we build on ethnographic research by using the 1999 Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) video archives. Here we consider two possible explanations for the general patterns that have developed in school teaching. One explanation is that there are universal elements in most schools today that shape teaching practice. These elements include the physical environment, the social dynamics of classrooms, and the content to be learned. If