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From Researcher in Pure Mathematics to Primary School Mathematics Teacher Educator

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The Learning and Development of Mathematics Teacher Educators

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In this chapter, we investigate the transition from doing research in pure mathematics to becoming a mathematics teacher educator for prospective primary school teachers. The transition involves challenges at several levels, including both the teaching of students and the nature and content of research in a different field. Central to this transition is the development from knowledge in the vanguard of pure mathematics to profound understanding of fundamental mathematics. What does a pure mathematician need to learn in order to become a mathematics teacher educator? How and in which contexts does the learning take place? Using a four-dimensional framework, we investigate questions about knowledge and learning, inquiry and reflection, insider and outsider, and individual and community.

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Acknowledgement

The authors wish to thank Professor Tim Rowland for helpful comments and suggestions during the preparation of the manuscript. We also thank our editor Merrilyn Goos and the two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestion on the first draft of this chapter.

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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Norway), Trondheim, Norway

    Svein Arne Sikko & Yvonne Grimeland

  2. Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    Svein Arne Sikko

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  1. School of Education, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Merrilyn Goos

  2. School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Kim Beswick

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Sikko, S.A., Grimeland, Y. (2021). From Researcher in Pure Mathematics to Primary School Mathematics Teacher Educator. In: Goos, M., Beswick, K. (eds) The Learning and Development of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Research in Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62408-8_12

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