Preschool Teachers’ Ways of Promoting Mathematical Learning in Picture Book Reading

• Research has shown ambiguous results regarding the role of the teacher when reading picture books with the intention to offer young children opportunities for learning. In this chapter, we thereby discuss the relation between teacher knowledge and afforded numerical learning opportunities for pre-school children in joint picture book reading. We base our discussion on analyses of video documentations of three pre-school teachers and 13 pre-schoolers reading a picture book. The picture book was specially designed to afford the children to discern numerical concepts. The documented reading sessions are analysed with specific focus on teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT), and on how children's learning opportunities are related to the teachers' ways of making connections within and between mathematical notions. Based on the analysis, making such connections seems to depend on the teacher's knowledge of the specific content. Also, teacher flexibility, in the sense of considering children's individual competences and initiatives at the same time as keeping a learning object present, is a feature of interaction that stands out as important when reading picture books with teaching intentions. Teaching in this way constitutes a fusion of the different parts of the MKT that teachers possess.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

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preschool

early mathematics

picture book

number

professional development

mathematical knowledge for teaching

Mathematical Education

Matematikdidaktik

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