Publications
A selection from Stockholm University publication database-
2019. Anna Wallin, Eva Norén, Paola Valero. The 10th International Mathematics Education and Society Conference
In 2016 the Swedish fritidshem got its own curriculum where mathematics is formally
introduced. The space where students can experience informal forms of mathematics
in activities derived out of their own interest risks being slowly transformed into a
schoolified form of mathematics, steered by teachers and striving for learning
effectiveness. A policy enactment perspective was used to investigate the material,
interpretive and discursive dimensions of the enactment process. Based on document
analysis, observations and interviews in two cases, tensions between two different and
competing discourses were identified: one driven by student’s interests and one driven
by teacher’s mathematical agenda. The meaning of fritidshem math will configure in
the tensions about what counts as desirable forms of mathematical activity in practice.
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2018. Anna Wallin, Eva Norén, Paola Valero. Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education