Investigating transgressive actions undertaken by students while studying mathematics via primary sources
Mark Watford 1 * , Kathleen Michelle Clark 2
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1 School of Teacher Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA2 School of Education and Human Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA* Corresponding Author

Abstract

We describe an exploration informed by transgressionism and supported by data collected from students’ report of learning abstract algebra via curriculum materials where primary historical sources are central to their design, namely Primary Source Projects (PSPs). PSPs require students to actively engage with primary source texts written by historical mathematicians and counter students’ more traditional mathematical learning experiences. We explore the components forming transgressive triads consisting of outcomes of transgressive actions taken to overcome boundaries encountered in students’ study of mathematics. Particularly, we focus on transgressive actions undertaken by students and provide exemplars identified from data to empirically support our theoretical conceptualisations. We end with a discussion by proposing research that draws upon transgressions in both learning mathematics via PHS in particular and with regard to other approaches in undergraduate mathematics education which may place students in contexts in which their familiar is made unfamiliar.

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Article Type: Research Article

INT ELECT J MATH ED, Volume 19, Issue 4, November 2024, Article No: em0794

https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/15477

Publication date: 15 Oct 2024

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