caa a22 4500 467997284 CHVBK 20180323112600.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19900801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00304261 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00304261 Factors shaping community attitudes to school mathematics: Implications for future curriculum change [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Galbraith, D. Chant] The goals of mathematics education are pressured by political, social, and economic forces that are often expressed through the medium of public opinion. Public opinion is formed largely by the preceptions of "what is” rather than the reality itself which may be known by only a few. The recommendations of committees of enquiry are activated in the world of average people and typical teachers — not the rarefied world of specialised professional knowledge in which the recommendations are typically incubated. This paper reports on community perceptions of school mathematics with respect to the four areas of content, individual values, attitudinal aspects, and folklore. Factor analysis identified five predictor variables (derived from the respondents' own backgrounds), and five criterion variables (describing their views and values as to what school mathematics should be). Analysis of variance was used to explore the contribution of the predictor variables and selected demographic variables to the criterion factor scores. The results are discussed in relation to their implications for the effective implementation of recommendations for change in mathematics education. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Galbraith Peter Department of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia aut Chant D. Department of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia aut Educational Studies in Mathematics Kluwer Academic Publishers 21/4(1990-08-01), 299-318 0013-1954 21:4<299 1990 21 10649 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304261 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304261 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Galbraith Peter Department of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chant D. Department of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Educational Studies in Mathematics Kluwer Academic Publishers 21/4(1990-08-01), 299-318 0013-1954 21:4<299 1990 21 10649 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer