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In this chapter, we draw substantially on Wenger’s (1998) Communities of Practice (CoP) theory to develop and then propose a methodological approach for analyzing pre-service mathematics teacher education multilingual classrooms. The approach emerged in Essien’s (2013) study that investigated how pre-service mathematics teachers were being prepared to teach mathematics in multilingual contexts. Like many others in mathematics education, the theoretical frame for the study drew from a disciplinary domain in the social sciences to investigate the teaching and learning of mathematics.
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Essien, A.A., Adler, J. (2016). Operationalising Wenger’s Communities of Practice Theory for Use in Multilingual Mathematics Teacher Education Contexts. In: Halai, A., Clarkson, P. (eds) Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-229-5_12
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