%0 Journal Article
%T Beliefs about Teaching Geometric Transformations with Geometers¡¯ Sketchpad: A Reflexive Abstraction
%A Shashidhar Belbase
%J Journal of Education and Research
%P 15-38
%@ 2091-2560
%D 2013
%R 10.3126/jer.v3i2.8396
%X A teacher¡¯s belief plays a significant role in the quality of teaching mathematics. In a fictive way, I changed my role from a researcher to a research participant in an imaginative interview. My interior other (David) interviewed me as a researcher. A single interview session was held lasting for about three hours. The interview text was used for the analysis and interpretation using the grounded theory method. I invented a substantive theory of my beliefs about teaching geometric transformations with Geometer¡¯s Sketchpad. The theory is ¡°reflexive abstraction of my beliefs about teaching Geometric Transformations with Geometer¡¯s Sketchpad¡± as a personal theory characterized by some basic categories of - beliefs about the advancement of pedagogy, beliefs about pedagogical environment, beliefs about the role of students¡¯ and teacher, beliefs about self as a future teacher, beliefs about teaching learning activities, and beliefs about transitions in teaching learning. I reconstructed a synthesis of the characteristics of these beliefs. While constructing these layers of interpretive accounts, I used radical constructivist grounded theory as a theoretical base.
%K teaching beliefs
%K self-interview
%K radical constructivist grounded theory
%K invention of local theory
%U http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/JER/article/view/8396