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Early childhood contexts for learning mathematics
Authors: Barkai Ruthi , Levenson Esther , Tsamir Pessia , Tirosh Dina 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
It is well known that children enter the first grade with mathematical skills, conceptions, and misconceptions. Thus, early childhood mathematics research can inform elementary school mathematics educators. This chapter reviews plenary talks, research reports, posters, and workshops presented at the Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching (SEMT) over the past 30 years, regarding children who have not yet entered the first grade. Tthe chapter focuses on early childhood contexts for learning number concepts, geometry, spatial reasoning, and patterns and generalization. These contexts often involve the senses, employing sight, hearing, and touch. Furthermore, reviewing past studies also showed that the same context may be used for promoting different mathematical concepts and skills. Most of the early childhood studies reported at past SEMTs occurred in preschools or elementary schools. Recognizing the importance of out-of-school settings as contexts for early mathematical learning, we next describe current research with adults who are not preschool teachers.
Learning to solve word problems with understanding
Authors: Vondrová Naďa 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Word problems have been investigated in mathematics education research for many decades and standpoints. Topics researched by SEMT authors roughly fit into four broad categories. The first investigates the characteristics of pupils and how these affect their ability to solve these problems (e.g. being strong or weak in mathematics). The second focuses on variables that make word problems difficult (e.g. order of the data, context, language consistency). The most attention has been given to the third category, studies on the effect of different instructional methods on pupils’ problem-solving ability. The fourth category is lack of attention to effects of classroom-related conditions on pupils’ ability to solve word problems. This chapter summarizes the main results of SEMT presentations on word problems in which methodology is presented. These results are discussed against outcomes from international research. Three meta-analyses of studies of word problems are used towards this aim.
Elementary mathematics teaching: Relevance, conceptualizations, and research
Authors: Višňovská Jana , Luis Cortina José , Vale Pamela 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
In classroom situations, teaching and learning are closely connected. Through examples drawn from contributions to the SEMT over time, this chapter explores and illustrates ways in which research on mathematics learning has implicitly and explicitly addressed this connection, and how research on mathematics teaching emerged as an area of focus in its own right. It then specifically attends to interventionist work (design research informed by Realistic Mathematics Education instructional design theory) as a thread within SEMT endeavours, within which the authors took part in a shift in focus from student learning, first to a focus on their teaching, and then to one on supporting the teaching of others. They view this chapter as an invitation to discuss the future of research into mathematics teaching as an area with the overt aim of supporting the work of teachers.
From variation pedagogy and Lesson Study to cultural transposition
Authors: Bussi Maria Bartolini , Ramploud Alessandro 
Published: December 2024

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This chapter reconstructs the research trajectory of the authors, an academic researcher and a primary school teacher who worked as a full-time supervisor for the practicum of prospective primary school teachers at SEMT 2011. An early introduction to variation pedagogy was given, reporting some Italian experiments in primary school. The two authors together introduced a version of Lesson Study to Italian teachers, drawing on their experience in China and Japan, where these models of teacher education and development are implemented systematically. Drawing on their experience, the second author, in collaboration with a small group of Italian researchers, carried on the elaboration of the theoretical construct of cultural transposition. The aim of this chapter is to reconstruct the recent story of variation pedagogy, as interpreted by the Italian community, through the lenses of cultural transposition, to be interpreted both as a design and an analytical tool.
Japanese Lesson Study: Insights from SEMT
Authors: Doig Brian , Groves Susie 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Looking at past SEMT papers, it now seems strange that the now internationally well-known Japanese Lesson Study, and the structured problem-solving approach in mathematics, were unfamiliar in some European countries. However, looking back at three different presentations at SEMT, it would appear that the idea was not only novel, but also well received. This chapter looks at three very different presentations—a plenary address, a paper presentation, and a workshop—all with a focus on this topic. While the authors of these different presentations take different perspectives on their topics, the fundamental basis is the Japanese Lesson Study tradition, with a particular emphasis on the structured problem-solving mathematics lesson within the framework of Lesson Study. The three papers that this chapter is based upon come from two different SEMT symposia, and have very different substantive bases. However, despite this, they offer the reader insights into how one foreign pedagogical culture can be implemented in another. While some of the examples included here provide more information than others, the sum of them gives sufficient information for an interested reader to start their own journey in this pedagogically fruitful field.
Democracy in Action
Authors: Dzur Albert W. , Hendriks Carolyn M. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Around the globe citizens are leading practical experimental civil society efforts to solve complex problems in areas such as crime and punishment, energy, care, environmental conservation, planning, food security, and substance use. This book casts light on these spaces of citizens’ governance and draws out their potential benefits and risks for democracy. Drawing on more than 30 case studies from diverse regions and policy domains, the book shows how citizens in these bottom-up initiatives often interconnect their governance work with public and private sector actors; while keeping their agency, they draw resources and authority on the one hand, and model innovation and change on the other. The book renders more visible the citizen motivations, associational form, knowledge production, and democratic work of these spaces, and considers key lessons they hold for boosting and deepening political participation in modern systems of democracy. Citizen spaces reset expectations for citizen action and break down conventional understandings of crystalized divisions of labor in governance between citizen, official, and market.
Citizen Action in Uncertain Times: Contextualizing Citizens’ Governance Spaces
Authors: Dzur Albert W. , Hendriks Carolyn M. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter introduces the key ideas in the book and elaborates on the concept of citizens’ governance spaces, stressing its analytic and practical value for understanding sources of social innovation and political participation in civil society. Also considered is the political context in which these spaces emerge and operate, focusing in on three broad trends in contemporary democracies: decentered governance, rising distrust, and polarization. The chapter lays out the book’s methodological approach which is grounded in over 30 empirical cases of citizen-led governance from around the globe. The final section explores normative characteristics, distinguishing between “good” citizen governance practices that identify and respond to basic needs and increase democratic governance from “bad” practices that are exclusionary and allow coercion and deception. It then outlines the arguments of the five chapters that follow.
Living in a Materials World
Authors: Addison Tony , Roe Alan 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter sketches out the scope and structure of the book Resources Matter: Ending Poverty While Protecting Nature. The book aims to broaden the development debate around the extractive industries. And within that debate, the narrative focuses on transparency in the collection and use of the revenues arising from mining and oil and gas extraction to combat the resource curse traditionally associated with the sector. Confining discussion to transparency is insufficient because any discussion of the extractive sector must also grapple with the industries’ pivotal role in relation to climate change; not only as a supplier of the critical materials necessary if the net-zero transition is to be achieved but also as a source of the fossil fuels that contribute so much to the growth of emissions. Readers will find discussions on transparency, as well as those of economic management, together with those of climate and the sector’s impact on nature more broadly.
Seizing the Opportunities
Authors: Addison Tony , Roe Alan 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter focuses on the three main transformations required—in economies, states, companies—and the related attitudes and policies that are necessary to seize the opportunities while also managing the risks. Huge investments in mining are underway, not least to meet the material needs of net zero, and judicious complementary investments and policy reforms can deliver greater benefit to national economies. The resource curse is not inevitable. At the same time, the chapter reinforces Chapter 3’s message that renewable natural capital has the greatest long-run economic value. Successful economic transformation requires success in transforming the state: ensuring transparency and reducing corruption and building the capacities of local and central government—especially in project selection and management. Effective partnerships can then be built with companies, the best of which are now delivering more community benefit, decarbonization, and minimal environmental impact.
Values, Knowledge, and Interests
Authors: Addison Tony , Roe Alan 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter concludes the book by restating and summarizing its main arguments under three headings. The first is values, and specifically the value that societies assign to ending poverty, versus the value assigned to protecting nature. Given their limited finances, the governments of poor countries tend to prioritize poverty over nature. The second is knowledge: we now have a great deal more evidence about how to improve the developmental role of the extractive industries. Knowledge also encompasses scientific and technological advances which have the capacity to upturn markets for metals, materials, and fuels with major consequences for the fortunes of nations. The third is interests: groups within society can oppose or promote desirable reforms. Additionally, nation states have interests and compete with each other; we have now entered a new geopolitical era characterized by heightened conflict—which will surely have profound implications for the prospects of the extractive industries.
Introduction
Authors: Rutter Tom 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter provides a justification for considering Shakespeare’s engagement with scientific themes, as well as addressing the potential objection that science in its modern sense did not exist during his lifetime. It discusses the terminology used to describe the study of nature in Shakespeare’s time, summarizes the debate over whether a ‘scientific revolution’ began in the seventeenth century, and outlines how Shakespeare has been positioned in relation to science by recent critics. It then summarizes the contents of the chapters that follow, as well as the book’s contribution to its field: namely, the range of topics it synthesizes, the evidence it supplies for Shakespeare’s extensive interest in science, and its emphasis on the importance of dramatic form and performance in Shakespeare’s engagement with the topic.
Matter
Authors: Rutter Tom 
Published: December 2024

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This chapter considers the multiple ways of thinking about matter upon which Shakespeare draws. It begins by showing how the Sonnets are variously informed by elemental theory, Ovidian ideas of matter as continually changing, the language of alchemy, and the miraculous behaviour of matter in the Eucharist. It goes on to discuss the extent of Shakespeare’s familiarity with atomism, a model extensively set out in Lucretius’s poem De rerum natura, focusing in particular on Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, and King Lear. Finally, it considers The Tempest, a play that brings questions of matter and materiality to the fore as well as thematizing the relationship between science, magic, and colonization.
Sufi Devotional Performances in Multan, Pakistan, a “City of Saints”
Authors: Gillani Karim 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Multan is an ancient capital and crossroads with a significant Muslim presence since the tenth century. As one of the most important trading centers of medieval Islamic India, it attracted Sufi mystics and became known as Madinat al-Awliya, a “city of saints,” and a vibrant center for learning and teaching. Its Sufi saints and shrines attract large numbers of devotees throughout the year. Besides various Sufi orders, the city has also attracted many mystics, the most significant among them Bahauddin Zakariya, Pir Shams Sabzwari, and Shah Rukn-e-Alam. This chapter examines the performance of qawwali at Bahauddin Zakariya and Shah Rukn-e-Alam shrines, which serves to arouse mystical love and remembrance (dhikr) of the divine: the core experience of Sufism. In two examples, drawn from field research in 2002, this chapter demonstrates contexts through which people of Multan experience and accept a variety of religious beliefs and teachings in their daily lives.
Sindhi Kafi and Vernacular Islam in Western India
Authors: Bond Brian E. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter discusses contemporary practice of the Sindhi-language kafi genre, in which singers perform metaphorical Sufi poetry based on the rich narrative tradition of the Indus Valley, continuing the Sufi tradition of transmitting Islam through affectively powerful stories. In Kachchh, Gujarat, a borderland in western India adjacent to Sindh, Pakistan, amateur Muslim singers from agriculturalist and pastoralist communities learned to sing Sindhi repertoire by imitating singers they heard on cross-border Pakistani radio and Pakistani cassettes. This chapter discusses the musico-poetic repertoire of Sindh’s most important poet-saint, Shah ʿAbdul Latif Bhitai, who allegorized over a dozen regional narratives and indelibly imbued them with Islamic meaning. It focuses on the poignant tale of ʿUmar and Marui to explore how poetry enthusiasts and performers bring this story and Shah Bhitai’s poetry based on it to bear emotional meaning in multiple dimensions of their lives.
Music, Religious Experience, and Nationalism in Marathi Rashtriya Kirtan
Authors: Schultz Anna 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, India has been marred by waves of Hindu nationalist violence. A robust body of scholarship interrogates the politicians and nationalist organizations who use religion to further India’s nationalist agendas, but less attention has been given to nationalism as it seeps into ritual contexts. In these contexts, nationalism is experienced not as politics but as religion. In order to understand the emotional registers of Hindu nationalism, we need to pay careful attention to how nationalism becomes religious experience, a process often activated through music. This chapter attends to singer-storytellers known as rashtriya kirtankars who generate devotion to nationalism (Hindu and otherwise) through their spirited ritual performances in the Marathi language. Using examples from two different kirtankars on different points of the political spectrum, the chapter considers how meanings are shaped and how emotions are generated in rashtriya kirtan performance.
“We Know What Our Folk Culture Is from Commercial Videos”
Authors: Fiol Stefan 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Commercial music plays a central role in creating value for the lok sanskriti (folk culture) of the Uttarakhand Himalayas in North India. Most recording artists have recorded songs that are rooted in village-based rhythmic and melodic features, and often these tracks are labeled lokgeet (folksong). However, in commercial productions, lok sanskriti is not treated as a way of life but rather as a set of discrete audio and visual features. Because of the economic and cultural feedback between festival and studio contexts, the process of manufacturing folk music in the studio significantly shapes the process of sustaining folk culture in the village. By shifting between ethnographic examples in studio and festival locations, this chapter interrogates the circular process whereby commercial recordings become a source of creativity for festival dance-song performances, and the latter become a source of creativity for recording studio projects.
Pedagogy and Embodiment in the Transmission of Kerala Temple Drumming
Authors: Groesbeck Rolf 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter argues that among some temple and dance-drama drummers in Kerala, the transmission of knowledge in the initial stages of pedagogy, in both private and institutional contexts, involves a process of becoming a student (sisyan) as well as accruing musical knowledge. Through these processes the student is constructed in some ways as a younger version of the teacher, but in others as a different type of person altogether, roughly corresponding to the first of four stages of Sanskrit life-stage theory: the brahmacharya (disciple). This disciple/teacher distinction manifests itself also in realms such as personal appearance, presentation of the body, and emotional expression, as well as musical style. In other words, a dichotomous construction of selfhood permeates a number of categories of musical and social behavior and thought.
Sonic Gift-Giving in Sri Lankan Buddhism
Authors: Sykes Jim 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The Berava (Beravā) have long been Sri Lanka’s premier caste of ritualists, drummers, and dancers. In this chapter, I argue that because of a doctrinal stipulation (the Seventh Precept) that prohibits Buddhists from engaging in music and dance (including monks and the laity on certain occasions), Berava drumming is structured as sacred speech rather than “music” so that it may be acceptable as an offering to the Buddha and deities (who are bodhisattas or Buddhas-to-be). Focusing on the drum associated with Sri Lanka’s southern “low country” (the pahata rata beraya or “low-country drum”), I show that its performance consists of lines or “feet” (padas) of drumming with combined syllables (aksaras) that move from less-metered to more-metered (and back), including speech-like offerings to the Buddha and drumming for yakku (demons) that is inauspicious, shorter, and more closely hints at meter. Ritual drummers focus on accurately pronouncing padas rather than on rigorously placing drum strokes on subdivisions of a beat cycle (the traditional South Asian term, tala, is not used to refer to meter). Berava drumming serves as a respectful offering to the deities who protect the island from disasters like drought and pestilence, and as a means to help ward off certain illnesses brought on by yakku.
Contemporizing Kandyan Dance
Authors: Reed Susan A. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Contemporary dancers in South Asia grapple with questions of how to make classical dance forms relevant for current times. This chapter focuses on the philosophy and practice of Sri Lanka’s foremost contemporary dancer, Venuri Perera, illustrating how she seeks to challenge the dominant conception of Kandyan dance, Sri Lanka’s preeminent dance, as a sacred cultural object to be preserved. Adapting the strictures and structures of the dance—and articulating this process as “play”—Venuri redefines Kandyan dance as an artistic form that can be used to embody and express contemporary aesthetic and social concerns. This philosophy of play is also central to her dance teaching. Eschewing the hierarchy embedded in the traditional teacher-student relationship, she creates a climate of openness with her students, encouraging them to question and engage in dialogues about their process and practice.
Dance In The Round
Authors: Desai Parijat 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
In 2016, Parijat Desai began developing Dance In The Round as a vehicle to create collective movement experiences based on circle dances originating in Gujarat, India, called garba and raas. Alarmed by anti-democratic, anti-immigrant forces in the United States and inspired by the multifaceted benefits of garba-raas, Desai modeled these new movement spaces on principles of this evolving tradition. In this chapter, Desai describes ways she has investigated the inner wisdom of garba to help move through current challenges of disconnection, disembodiment, and collective trauma. Garba’s form and structure—its circular formations and shifting spatial relationships between people—express and support social values of inclusion, individual expression, and interdependence. The chapter discusses some of the ways she has marshaled garba’s format of repeating rhythms, simple claps, spiraling motions, and climaxing tempos to energize participants, and how she has mobilized the egalitarian, porous circles of garba to welcome rather than exclude.
Randomized Controlled Trials and Alternatives for the EBP Process
Authors: Garcia Antonio R. , Corcoran Jacqueline 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Chapter 4 delves into why a randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the strongest single study design when examining the impact of an intervention. A case study is presented to illustrate the evidence-based practice (EBP) process, how to locate and critique RCTs to inform practice, and to determine whether indeed the novel intervention in the RCT should be implemented for your client(s). Other research designs that practitioners may often rely on to answer practice questions in the absence of RCT’s are reviewed.
Evaluating Client Progress
Authors: Garcia Antonio R. , Corcoran Jacqueline 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter 10 offers a brief overview of why monitoring client progress is critical to the EBP process. Numerous approaches to monitoring client progress and ensuring that the issues of concern are addressed are presented. Still, many students and practitioners may experience challenges identifying the “best” method to monitor client progress. This chapter discusses the pros and cons of several methods, including standardized measures, goal attainment scaling, individualized rating scales, behavioral observations, and client logs. Some of these methods are discussed in terms of a case study assigned to a social work intern. Other case studies, delineating the process for developing a plan for monitoring client progress are presented to enhance learning.
Review and Conclusion
Authors: Garcia Antonio R. , Corcoran Jacqueline 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Chapter 11 reviews key concepts and complex case studies to illustrate the refined EBP process. As we highlighted in each chapter, social workers must grapple with simultaneously balancing (1) client needs and preferences, (2) the best available evidence, and (3) the implementation context. In this chapter, we review the framework for aligning these three essential ingredients of the EBP process and present case studies and activities to increase your confidence in applying and translating evidence to practice. In these case studies, the complexity of grappling with the implementation context is considered. The chapter concludes with several practice-related activities to help you integrate key concepts we presented in this book.