Crisan, C;
Rodd, M;
(2017)
Learning mathematics for teaching mathematics: non-specialist teachers' mathematics teacher identity.
Mathematics Teacher Education and Development (MTED)
, 19
(2)
pp. 104-122.
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Abstract
A non-specialist teacher of mathematics is a school teacher who qualified to teach in a subject other than mathematics yet teaches mathematics to students in secondary school. There is an emerging interest internationally in this population, a brief report of which is given in the paper. Because of concerns about the quality of non-specialists’ mathematics teaching, in-service courses for these teachers have been provided by some educational jurisdictions, including within the United Kingdom (UK). This paper reports on a research project based on designing and teaching such courses in London. The paper operationalises ‘Mathematics Teacher Identity’ by adapting Wenger’s (1998) social ecology of identity to give a framework of ‘Modes of Belonging’ for a teacher of mathematics, which is then used to analyse qualitative data of different types. Analysis of the data identifies (1) aspects of non-specialists’ mathematics teacher identity in terms of indicators and (2) through two case studies, ‘trajectories’ towards development of a mathematics teacher identity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Learning mathematics for teaching mathematics: non-specialist teachers' mathematics teacher identity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://mted.merga.net.au/index.php/mted/article/v... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | non-specialist teacher of mathematics, mathematics teacher identity, in-service course, communities of practice, teaching across specialisations, ‘out-of-field’ teaching |
| 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/1549834 |
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