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  title info:
    title: Becoming a Mathematics Teacher
    sub title: Identity and Identifications
  name:
    name part: Brown, Tony.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McNamara, Olwen.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 194 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book is about people preparing to teach mathematics to children in the first half of their schooling. It is also about what mathematics becomes in a school context responding to insistent demands to raise standards. The book asks how aspirant teachers begin to think of themselves as teachers, and about mathematics in particular, when they have many years of experience as pupils in school behind them, which did not always leave a positive image of mathematics. How do they change how they are, or even who they are, as they proceed through a teacher education programme into their first teaching post, where mathematics is just one of many subjects to be taught? They will encounter diverse and complex social demands that cannot necessarily be reconciled, since the work of schools is targeted at enabling pupils to participate in a rapidly changing world where consensus on educational objectives seems difficult to achieve. Conflicting priorities can result in teachers being pulled in many directions, where their personal aspirations confront an official story that portrays the journey into teaching as a sequence of criteria to be fulfilled. Centred on over 200 hours of interview data from government-funded studies directed by the authors the book documents teachers over a five-year period, from the outset of their training to the end of their first year of teaching in a school. These interviews coincided with a major national curriculum initiative that through prescriptive and detailed regulation set the characteristics of a good teacher and the content of mathematics to be taught. Aimed primarily at teacher educators the book will also appeal to researchers across the field of education for its unique theoretical perspective drawing on contemporary psychoanalytical theory in portraying the identities that teachers come to occupy, and the forms of mathematics with which they identify. It also presents a vivid account of what educational policy implementation looks lik…
  table of contents: About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematics Teaching and Identity -- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Hermeneutics To Psychoanalysis.- 2.3 Personal Aspirations Meet External Demands -- 3. How Teachers Learn: a Review of Research.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 The Transition From Scholar To Authority.- 3.3 Conclusion.- 4. Becoming a Teacher: an English Case Study.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The Initial Teacher Education Reform Agenda -- 4.3 The School Context: The Rise and Fall of the Strategies -- 4.4 The Empirical Study -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Theorising Teacher Identity -- 5.1 Analytical Strategies.- 5.2 Technologies of the Self -- 5.3 Regulating Consensus.- 6 The Shaping of School Mathematics.- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Social Framing of School Mathematics -- 6.3 The Secret of the Forms of School Mathematics -- 6.4 Conclusion.- 7 Implications for Practice -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Implications for Teacher Development -- 7.3 The Future of School Mathematics -- 7.4 The Research and Policy Environment.-References.- Index.
  note: by Tony Brown, Olwen McNamara.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 370
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mathematics Education Library ; 53
  identifier: 9789400705548
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0554-8
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    record creation date: 110207
    record change date: 20151120171553.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-0554-8