Early Mathematics Education with a Focus on the Teacher and the Teaching
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Early Childhood Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2025) | Viewed by 602
Special Issue Editors
Interests: early mathematics; teacher education; problem solving; digital technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Presently, in research, there is a solid view that early mathematics is important for children’s development in general and mathematical learning in particular. At the same time, there are diverse views on how young children should be taught mathematics and whether the word teaching is to be used at all in connection to early childhood mathematics education. These diverse views on teaching in early childhood mathematics education become even more diverse when the question as to whether teaching is to be integrated with or separated from children’s play is added.
Thus, even though today there is a solid view on the importance of early childhood mathematics education, there is a diverse view on how this education is to be realized. On the one hand, there is a large body of research offering quite a good understanding of the trajectory of children developing mathematical knowledge; on the other hand, few studies focus on how this development can be facilitated or how the teaching of mathematics can be made meaningful for the children in both a mathematical and a child-responsive sense.
In this Special Issue, we direct attention to these issues and to what becomes critical in early mathematics education, with a special focus on the teacher and the interactions between the teacher, the children, and the mathematical content. The aim is to contribute scientific knowledge of how to conduct early mathematics education.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Teaching interventions in early mathematics;
- Literature reviews on teaching in early mathematics;
- Cross-national studies on early mathematics education;
- Surveys on connections between teaching and learning in early mathematics education.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Hanna Palmér
Prof. Dr. Camilla Björklund
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- early mathematics
- preschool mathematics
- preschool teacher
- mathematising
- teaching interventions
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