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Exploring Mathematics and Science Teachers' Knowledge - Hamsa Venkat, Marissa Rollnick, John Loughran & Mike Askew

By Hamsa Venkat, Marissa Rollnick, John Loughran & Mike Askew

Release Date: 2014-05-09

Genre: Education

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Globally, mathematics and science education faces three crucial challenges: an increasing need for mathematics and science graduates; a declining enrolment of school graduates into university studies in these disciplines; and the varying quality of school teaching in these areas. Alongside these challenges, internationally more and more non-specialists are teaching mathematics and science at both primary and secondary levels, and research evidence has revealed how gaps and limitations in teachersā€™ content understandings can lead to classroom practices that present barriers to studentsā€™ learning.

This book addresses these issues by investigating how teachersā€™ content knowledge interacts with their pedagogies across diverse contexts and perspectives. This knowledge-practice nexus is examined across mathematics and science teaching, traversing schooling phases and countries, with an emphasis on contexts of disadvantage. These features push the boundaries of research into teachersā€™ content knowledge. The bookā€™s combination of mathematics and science enriches each discipline for the reader, and contributes to our understandings of student attainment by examining the nature of specialised content knowledge needed for competent teaching within and across the two domains.

Exploring Mathematics and Science Teachersā€™ Knowledge will be key reading for researchers, doctoral students and postgraduates with a focus on Mathematics, Science and teacher knowledge research.

Exploring Mathematics and Science Teachers' Knowledge - Hamsa Venkat, Marissa Rollnick, John Loughran & Mike Askew

By Hamsa Venkat, Marissa Rollnick, John Loughran & Mike Askew

Release Date: 2014-05-09

Genre: Education

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Globally, mathematics and science education faces three crucial challenges: an increasing need for mathematics and science graduates; a declining enrolment of school graduates into university studies in these disciplines; and the varying quality of school teaching in these areas. Alongside these challenges, internationally more and more non-specialists are teaching mathematics and science at both primary and secondary levels, and research evidence has revealed how gaps and limitations in teachersā€™ content understandings can lead to classroom practices that present barriers to studentsā€™ learning.

This book addresses these issues by investigating how teachersā€™ content knowledge interacts with their pedagogies across diverse contexts and perspectives. This knowledge-practice nexus is examined across mathematics and science teaching, traversing schooling phases and countries, with an emphasis on contexts of disadvantage. These features push the boundaries of research into teachersā€™ content knowledge. The bookā€™s combination of mathematics and science enriches each discipline for the reader, and contributes to our understandings of student attainment by examining the nature of specialised content knowledge needed for competent teaching within and across the two domains.

Exploring Mathematics and Science Teachersā€™ Knowledge will be key reading for researchers, doctoral students and postgraduates with a focus on Mathematics, Science and teacher knowledge research.

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