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Paul Reimer's research is focused on the learning sciences with an emphasis on mathematics, science, and technology education. His recent work explores innovations in the design and implementation of professional learning with early childhood teachers in STEM-related domains. Paul's research aims to help teachers develop inventive, reflective practices that embrace play as humanizing participation in ways of knowing, being, and doing,
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Colloquium at UC Berkeley, September 17, 2018
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"Disrupting Dichotomies: Opportunities in Centered Conceptions of Early Childhood Mathematics Learning and Teaching"
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This presentation describes an ongoing exploration of early childhood mathematics teaching and learning. Specifically, I introduce participants to a multi-year design research project in two Head Start preschool classrooms. Drawing on the complex interplay of cognitive, cultural, and social perspectives, the project explores learning environments, rich materials, and pedagogical orientations that encourage the development of mathematical thinking in children’s play. I suggest that play opens spaces for mathematical knowing in ways that disrupt traditional dichotomies of teacher and learner, mind and body, known and unknown, individual and collective. Finally, I discuss practical implications of the beginnings of a theoretical model that seeks to elucidate the intersection of play and pedagogy.
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