Coles, A.;
Helliwell, T.;
(2023)
The role of mathematics teacher educators in preparing teachers of mathematics to respond to global challenges within their classrooms.
London Review of Education
, 21
(1)
, Article 2. 10.14324/LRE.21.1.02.
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Abstract
The world is in a period of rapid change. Climate chaos is leading to floods, droughts and exacerbating inequality. In this article, we ask, in such a context, what is the role of mathematics education and, in particular, what can mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) do in supporting teachers to respond to global challenges, and the associated injustices, within their mathematics classrooms? We review work done within critical mathematics education and develop a model for reflection on the role of the MTE. We report on work taking place in one university in the UK where, since 2015, MTEs have been encouraging teachers to address global issues in their classrooms. One role which has emerged for an MTE is in supporting the translation of scientific work on climate change into classroom tasks. In England, the spaces for such work are being squeezed in an education system increasingly subject to conservative political forces. We conclude the article by considering possibilities for MTEs to provoke a generic questioning of assumptions, which we argue is possible even within such constraints.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The role of mathematics teacher educators in preparing teachers of mathematics to respond to global challenges within their classrooms |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/LRE.21.1.02 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.21.1.02 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023, Alf Coles and Tracy Helliwell. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | global challenges, climate change, learning to teach mathematics, role of the mathematics teacher educator, critical mathematics education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167650 |
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