Smith, C;
Bretscher, N;
(2018)
Designing teacher education for pre-university mathematics: articulating and operationalizing pedagogic messages.
Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA
, 37
(2)
pp. 84-97.
10.1093/teamat/hry008.
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Abstract
Reviews of mathematics teacher development point to a problematic and under-theorized relationship between learning mathematics and learning about mathematics pedagogy. We adopt a Bernsteinian perspective to the design and delivery of a course preparing early career teachers to teach pre-university mathematics. The iterative development and underlying rationale of five ‘key pedagogic messages’ is outlined as a process of tactical design. Ongoing evaluation showed the pedagogic messages provided a critical pivot in managing transitions between thinking about the mathematical content and thinking about how to teach that content. In particular, they provided a means for us, as teacher educators, to make explicit our own thinking on mathematics pedagogy and its operationalization, and hence render it available for reflection and critique. We argue for a design principle of articulating how teacher educators operationalize a few, explicit pedagogic messages; that pre-university mathematics presents a critical site for mathematics teacher education because it facilitates this principle, and that Bernsteinian notions of framing and knowledge structures are useful in designing as well as characterizing pedagogic settings.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Designing teacher education for pre-university mathematics: articulating and operationalizing pedagogic messages |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/teamat/hry008 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hry008 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046007 |
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