Beliefs-oriented subject-matter didactics: Design of a seminar and a book on calculus education

Frederik Dilling; Gero Stoffels; Ingo Witzke

doi:10.31129/LUMAT.12.1.2125

Authors

Frederik Dilling University of Siegen, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5902-4275
Gero Stoffels University of Siegen, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4908-4220
Ingo Witzke University of Siegen, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6936-1002

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31129/LUMAT.12.1.2125

Keywords:

Belief Systems, Calculus Education, Pre-service Teacher Training, Subject-Matter Didactics

Abstract

This paper presents a modified approach to subject-matter didactics, in which the focus is not on the content itself, but on the students' view of the content. The introduction deals with an overview of subject-matter didactics and the notion of beliefs used in this paper. The main portion of the paper deals with presenting the concepts of a book and a seminar based on the student-centered subject-matter didactics approach. For the first qualitative evaluation, selected reflections of students are analyzed. Finally, initial findings are summarized and an outlook is provided.

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