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The Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in Preparation of Teachers is a large National Science Foundation funded project aimed at revising science and mathematics pre-service courses at a large public university in the South-western United States. This chapter describes the collaborations of a community of university faculty in reforming a block of five pre-service mathematics and mathematics education courses. Through a series of workshops and ongoing dialogue, both the instructional delivery and curriculum for these pre-service courses has shifted to student-centred classrooms with inquiry, concept development and problem solving as central themes. The chapter provides information about the process and products of these reforms, with a major focus on providing specific insights into the role of research in guiding the curricular and instructional philosophies and decisions.
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Carlson, M., Zandieh, M., Bloom, I., Sawada, D. (2003). The Evolution of an Interdisciplinary Collaborative for Pre-Service Teacher Reform. In: Peter-Koop, A., Santos-Wagner, V., Breen, C., Begg, A. (eds) Collaboration in Teacher Education. Mathematics Teacher Education, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1072-5_4
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