Looking through the lens of a teacher's life: The power of prototypical stories in understanding teachers' instructional decisions in mathematics

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-233

  Frost, Janet Hart ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inservice teachers; Instructional influences; Mathematics education; Narrative; Social contexts; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149113049     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.03.020     Document Type: Article

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