Developing a 'leading identity': The relationship between students' mathematical identities and their career and higher education aspirations

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-72

  Black, Laura ^a   Williams, Julian ^a   Hernandez Martinez, Paul ^a   Davis, Pauline ^a   Pampaka, Maria ^a   Wake, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspirations; Cultural models; Cultural historical activity theory; Identity; Leading activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149086392     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-009-9217-x     Document Type: Article

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