How inconvenient assumptions affect preservice teachers' uptake of new interactional patterns in mathematics: Analysis and aspiration through a bifocal lens

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 25-40

  Klein, Mary ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pedagogic change; Poststructuralist theory; Teacher education; Teaching mathematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859257337     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-012-9390-1     Document Type: Article

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