1. Badr Goetz, Nadja: Dialogic Learning as Pedagogic Innovation. Evaluation of an Implementation of this Didactic Model at a Swiss Gymnasium
   
   In the context of a teaching research project which lasted one year, eleven teachers at a Swiss gymnasium were introduced to the basic principles of Dialogic Didactics. The goal of this evaluation was determine factors influencing the successful education of teachers, enabling them to work with complex didactic arrangements. A further goal was to study teachers' level of acceptance of this pedagogical innovation. In accordance with these goals, evaluative instruments of social science are used to study the processes and the context of the implementation, as well as teachers' interpretations of them. More information
   
   
2. Weber, Christof: Developing Mathematical Imagination – Implementation and Exploration of a Didactical Instrument for Teaching Mathematics at Secondary Level
   
   Both the TIMSS and PISA studies have made it abundantly clear that mathematics didactics does not pay enough attention to fostering students' mental representations underlying mathematical terms and calculations. The instrument of mathematical imagination exercises allows students to narrow the gap between everyday concepts and genuine mathematical thinking for gaining a deeper understanding of mathematical terms and procedures. This didactical instrument is explored by paying special attention to its acceptance by the students, what attitudes they developed towards it and how they used it in their learning.
More information

ad 1: Badr Goetz, Nadja (2006): Weiterbildung zum dialogischen Lernmodell am Gymnasium. Beiträge zur Lehrerbildung 24(2).

ad 2: Weber, Christof (2005): "Stell Dir vor" – Vorstellungsübungen im Geometrieunterricht zur Weiterentwicklung singulärer Vorstellungen. Praxis der Mathematik in der Schule, Heft 6 (Dezember 2005), Aulis Verlag, Köln, 28–32

ad 2: Weber, Christof (2007): Vorstellungen und Mathematikunterricht – Beispiel einer Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Unterrichtspraxis. In: Beiträge zum Mathematikunterricht – Vorträge der 41. Tagung für Didaktik der Mathema-tik. Verlag, Hildesheim / Berlin: Franzbecker.

ad2: Weber, Christof (2007): Mathematische Vorstellungen bilden – Praxis und Theorie von Vorstellungsübungen im Mathematikunterricht der Sekundarstufe II. Bern: h.e.p. Verlag.

Weitere Informationen