The impact of a teacher education culture-based project on identity as a mathematically thinking teacher

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 186-207

  Owens, Kay ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ecocultural pedagogy; ethnomathematics; mathematical identity; Papua New Guinea; secondary teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898002051     PISSN: 1359866X     EISSN: 14692945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2014.892568     Document Type: Article

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