“In school you notice the performance gap and how different it is between the students” – Student teachers’ collective orientations about the learners’ heterogeneity in mathematics
International audienceCollective orientations about the heterogeneity of the learners emerge on the basis of experiences that are unique to the individual, but in many ways structurally similar. Guided by the assumption that collective orientations significantly influence the practice of (student) teachers, our goal is to reconstruct (student) teachers’ ways of thinking in the context of heterogeneous learning groups in mathematics education using the documentary method. In the data of the project HeLeA , it became apparent that one main focus of the group discussions was the variety of student performance. The differences in the achievement of the students, especially in mathematics, seem to be a great challenge for student teachers. Furthermore, there are discontinuities between the everyday discourse of student teachers and the academic discourse on the topic of heterogeneity
