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Stories of devoted university students: the mathematical experience as a form of ascesis 专心致志的大学生的故事:作为一种苦行形式的数学体验

2区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Pub Date : 2023-09-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10649-023-10259-4

Francesco Beccuti, Paola Valero, Ornella Robutti

Abstract Drawing on autobiographical essays written by master’s students in mathematics preparing to become teachers, we investigate what mathematical identity these students articulate and how. By means of a discursive thematic analysis centered on the notion of ascesis, we show that the participants’ identity revolves around a characterization of mathematics as a challenging, useful, and comforting activity or knowledge, which is however regarded negatively by others. Indeed, mathematics is described as a uniquely challenging activity which requires an increasingly demanding self-discipline. Moreover, mathematics is depicted as a variously useful form of knowledge which is additionally capable to offer comfort to those who engage with it. However, the participants often remark that other people regard mathematics negatively, a fact explained by stressing others’ inability or unwillingness to understand or appreciate mathematics’ inherent positive features. This sets the boundary of an ideal club of math enthusiasts whose elitist membership is regulated in terms of acceptance or refusal of its constitutive values. Belonging to the club as well as proselytizing in order to recruit new members appears to be central to the participants’ mathematical identity.

摘要:根据准备成为教师的数学硕士学生所写的自传体文章，我们调查了这些学生表达的数学身份以及如何表达。通过以苦行概念为中心的话语主题分析，我们表明参与者的身份围绕着数学作为一种具有挑战性，有用和安慰的活动或知识的特征，然而被其他人视为负面的。事实上，数学被描述为一项独特的具有挑战性的活动，需要越来越严格的自律。此外，数学被描述为一种各种有用的知识形式，它还能够为那些从事数学的人提供安慰。然而，参与者经常说其他人对数学持消极态度，这一事实可以通过强调其他人无法或不愿意理解或欣赏数学固有的积极特征来解释。这就设定了一个理想的数学爱好者俱乐部的界限，这个俱乐部的精英成员是根据接受或拒绝其基本价值观来规范的。加入俱乐部以及为招募新成员而传教似乎是参与者数学身份的核心。

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