Becoming a Mathematics Teacher Identity and Identifications /

• Main Authors: Brown, Tony (Author), McNamara, Olwen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 53
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

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, a...

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.