PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2019
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Transformative learning theory: A lens to look at mathematics courses for preparing future teachers
Page: 1165
We suggest a 4-step cycle for helping prospective teachers transform their mathematical understandings from procedurally-based to more conceptually-based understandings. We use Mezirow’s (1991) idea of Transformative Learning Theory (TLT), which is an application of androgogy, or the methods of teaching adults. In this poster, we share our model of a TLT cycle and illustrate it using an example of a proportional reasoning problem for prospective teachers.