How Teachers Learn: A Review of Research

The initial education of teachers is the key focus of this book so let us now turn to consider in more detail how the task of student teachers learning to teach mathematics has been researched within teacher education contexts. We commence with an overview of some of the ways in which the process of teacher education is understood and represented within the research literature. We consider how the constituent elements of the process have been defined, and in particular examine some of the mechanisms through which students have been enabled to articulate their own understandings of the process.