TY - BOOK
T1 - Promoting socially just mathematics teaching practices
T2 - Exploring and enhancing the role of teacher educators
AU - Wright, Pete
PY - 2025/9/29
Y1 - 2025/9/29
N2 - This project set out to explore how educators of mathematics teachers can promote socially just pedagogies and practices among the student teachers and experienced practitioners they work with. We adopted a participatory action research methodology in establishing a research team of co-researchers drawn from universities across England and Scotland. A key focus was on developing a series of professional development workshops. Trialling and evaluating the workshops provided a key focus for the co-researchers to reflect on their own practice. Our findings highlighted how teacher educators, while facing constraints relating to the culture and environment in initial teacher education (ITE) and schools, have a key role to play in challenging existing discourses and narratives in mathematics education. We identified principles that might be applied in designing appropriate professional development resources, as well as strategies and structures for enhancing agency in educators of mathematics teachers.
AB - This project set out to explore how educators of mathematics teachers can promote socially just pedagogies and practices among the student teachers and experienced practitioners they work with. We adopted a participatory action research methodology in establishing a research team of co-researchers drawn from universities across England and Scotland. A key focus was on developing a series of professional development workshops. Trialling and evaluating the workshops provided a key focus for the co-researchers to reflect on their own practice. Our findings highlighted how teacher educators, while facing constraints relating to the culture and environment in initial teacher education (ITE) and schools, have a key role to play in challenging existing discourses and narratives in mathematics education. We identified principles that might be applied in designing appropriate professional development resources, as well as strategies and structures for enhancing agency in educators of mathematics teachers.
UR - https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/promoting-socially-just-mathematics-teaching-practices-exploring-and-enhancing-the-role-of-teacher-educators
M3 - Commissioned report
BT - Promoting socially just mathematics teaching practices
PB - British Educational Research Association
ER -