New Teacher Identity and Regulative Government: The Discursive Formation of Primary Mathematics Teacher Education

by Olwen McNamara and Tony Brown

This book seeks to address the question of how the task of teaching mathematics to young children might be better understood. But rather than starting out with a conception of mathematics derived from the many histories mathematics might claim as its own we centre the analysis instead within the social practices that surround the teaching of the subject to children aged four to eleven in English primary schools today. That is, we do not commence with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441936742
• ISBN13: 9781441936745
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"