Mathematics Educator's Beliefs and their Teaching Practices

The focus of this book is the exploration of mathematics educator's constructivist beliefs and aligned teaching practices in a pre-service primary teacher education degree programme. An integral part of this exploration is the identification of aspects of lecturers' practice that had a significant impact in enhancing the adoption of constructivist ideas on learning and constructivist-aligned teaching practices by student teachers. The practical focus is on more effective course teaching within the philosophical framework of constructivism while the theoretical focus is on the development of a constructivist approach to teacher education for teacher educators through the medium of mathematics education.

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Gregor became a teacher educator in 1995 after 16 years teaching secondary mathematics. His research is on the nature of effective professional development and the impact of affective factors in teaching/learning: with a focus on investigating lecturer/teacher effectiveness in conveying coherent professional and learning 'messages' to students.