How the role of the preschool teacher affects the communication of mathematics

Laurence Delacour (1)

1 Malmö Högskola = Malmö University

The purpose of this article is to study and analyse how two teachers implement an outdoor situation for children aged 4–5 in a Swedish preschool. The analysis and interpretation of the data in this paper has been influenced by situation theory and by the use of the didactic contract as a key concept. The term didactic contract is seen as a metaphor; consequently, I use a broader definition of the didactic contract to illustrate how the role of the teacher affects the communication of mathematics with children. Most of the text in this paper is adapted from my thesis (Delacour, 2013) and articles (Delacour, 2014a, b).

Mots clés: Kindergarten; teacher; didactic contract; mathematics

Domaines: Education; Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Laurence Delacour. How the role of the preschool teacher affects the communication of mathematics. CERME 9 - Ninth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education; ERME, Feb 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.1905-1910. ⟨hal-01288462⟩