Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Study Cycle: Master
SUBJECT

Code	Subject	
MME1017	Special Topics in Modern Didactics II	

Section	Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Type	
Didactic Mathematics - in Hungarian	4	2+2+0	speciality	compulsory	

Teaching Staff in Charge	Lect. ANDRAS Szilard Karoly, andrasz@math.ubbcluj.ro	
Aims	Alternative pedagogical methods and their applications in teaching mathematics	
Content	I. Alternative methods versus classical methods and the needs of childrens 
II. Personalities: Rudolf Steiner, M. Montessori, C. Freinet, Ellen Key, John Dewey, William Kilpatrick, Adolph Ferrierre
III. The Waldorf method, presentation, arguments and counterarguments
IV. The Waldorf method in the teaching of mathematics 
V. The Montessori method, presentation, arguments and counterarguments
VI. The Montessori method in the teaching of mathematics
VII. The project method, presentation, arguments and counterarguments
VIII. The project method in the teaching of mathematics 
IX. Cooperative learning, presentation, arguments and counterarguments 
X. Cooperative learning and mathematics
XI. Step by step method, presentation, arguments and counterarguments
XII. Step by step and mathematics education
XIII. Freinet&#8217;s method, presentation, arguments and counterarguments
XIV. The Rogers schools and other alternative directions

Bibliography	1.	Németh-Ehrenhard: Reformpedagógia és az iskola reformja: Budapest, Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, 1999
2.	Gordon Thomas. T.E.T.: A tanári hatékonyság fejlesztése- Bp.: Gondolat, 1989

I. Waldorf
1. Jonh Blackwood: Mathematics in Space and Time (Waldorf Education Resources), Floris Books, 2006
2. Jármy Balázs: A Waldorf-pedagógia, http://www.waldorfsuli.hu/waldorf_kozos
seg_olvasosarok/jarmywaldorf/bevezeto.html
II. Montessori
1. Elizabeth G. Hainstock: The Essential Montessori, Plume publishers, 1986
2. Maria Montessori: Az ember nevelése, 1978, Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest
III. Projektmódszer
1. http://www.ketif.hu/kf_tfk/pedagogiai_projekt/zip/2004cikk/zsamkar.htm
2. Jane Henry: Teaching Through Projects (The Open and Flexible Learning Series), RoutledgeFalmer Publisher, 1994
IV. Kooperatív oktatás
1. Kísérlet a kooperatív tanulás alkalmazására a matematika tanítása során
Magyar Pedagógia 104(2004):3, 339-362
2. http://www.co-operation.org/
3. Spencer Kagan: Cooperative learning, Kagan Cooperative Learning publisher 1997.
V. Step by step
1. http://www.issa.nl/
VI. Freinet
1. History of Freinet pedagogy, http://ecolesdifferentes.free.fr/SCHLEMMINGER.htm
VII. Rogers
1. Carl R. Rogers, H. Jerome Freiberg: Freedom to Learn, Prentice Hall, 1994  

Assessment	Didactical project: 50%
Final exam 50%

If a student&#8217;s absentees is greater than 50% from the number of all activities, the student has to prepare a special presentation (paper) in a subject specified by the professor.