Resource: ' Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods'

Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods
Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods

Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods is the product of collaborations among over 40 mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) who teach mathematics methods courses for prospective PreK‐12 teachers in many different institutional contexts and structures. Each chapter unpacks ways in which MTEs use theoretical perspectives to inform their construction of goals, activities designed to address those goals, facilitation of activities, and ways in which MTEs make sense of experiences prospective teachers have as a result. The book is organized in seven sections that highlight how the theoretical perspective of the instructor impacts scholarly inquiry and practice. The final section provides insight as we look backward to reflect, and forward with excitement, moving with the strength of the variation we found in our stories and the feeling of solidarity that results in our understandings of purposes for and insight into teaching mathematics methods. This book can serve as a resource for MTEs as they discuss and construct scholarly practices and as they undertake scholarly inquiry as a means to systematically examine their practice.

This book was recently in the news. On Oct 23, 2017, CampusReform wrote a story criticizing Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez’s chapter, “Political Conocimiento for Teaching Mathematics: Why Teachers Need it and How to Develop it," for saying that mathematics, as it is traditionally taught, perpetuates privilege. Various mathematics education organizations have written statements in support of Gutiérrez, including the SIG/RME Executive Board, of which NebraskaMATH co-PI Ruth Heaton is the co-chair. To see these statements and a timeline of the movement, visit: https://equitymathed.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/history-of-istandwithrochelle/.

Links to purchase the book:
http://www.infoagepub.com/products/Building-Support-for-Scholarly-Practices-in-Mathematics-Methods

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