ERIC Number: EJ1195988
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 16
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On Noticing (and) the Theory-Practice Nexus in Mathematics Teacher Education: Conceptualising New Bourdieuian Fields of Social Practice in Field Experience
Nolan. Kathleen T.
Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, v20 n3 p119-134 2018
Through a teacher educator's study of her own practice as a faculty advisor (university supervisor), this paper focuses on studying theory-practice transitions with respect to mathematics pre-service teacher field experience. The purpose of the research study was to disrupt traditional discourses on these theory-practice transitions by reconceptualising the role of the faculty advisor through the development of a Teacher-Intern-Faculty Advisor (TIFA) Internship Learning Community. Drawing on Bourdieu's social field theory, this paper establishes the TIFA community as a productive space of collaboration and dialogue on the process of becoming a mathematics teacher. The paper proposes that this productive space functions as a new Bourdieuian field which rests in the theory-practice nexus and holds promise for deconstructing the scripts of fields in pre-service teacher education.
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Teachers, Theory Practice Relationship, Faculty Advisers, Communities of Practice, Preservice Teachers, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries, Attention, Practicums
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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