Developing teachers, developing as a teacher: A story about a story
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2005
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Pythagoras: Journal of the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa
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University of Cape Town
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In this paper I reflect on my changing roles as a mathematics educator, that is, as a teacher educator and as a classroom teacher in a secondary school. This is a personal account of the challenge of translating my beliefs about mathematics teaching and learning into everyday classroom practice. The presentation I use is based on the work of Rowland - the account is presented in the form of personal reflections on a story written about playing the two different roles of teacher educator and classroom teacher. I use the process of writing to try to make sense of my experiences and to explore the use of story as a research methodology. Although the story is intensely personal, there are identifiable themes that run through the narrative, which I suggest may resonate with the experience of other mathematics educators.
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Bennie, K. (2005). Developing teachers, developing as a teacher: A story about a story. Pythagoras, 62, 23-30.