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Boundary crossing and brokering between disciplines in pre-service mathematics teacher education
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Boundary crossing and brokering between disciplines in pre-service mathematics teacher education

Merrilyn Goos and Anne Bennison
Mathematics Education Research Journal, Vol.30(3), pp.255-275
2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13394-017-0232-4
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Specialist Studies in Education mathematics teacher education boundary crossing boundary practices brokering community of practice interdisciplinary collaboration
In many countries, pre-service teacher education programs are structured so that mathematics content is taught in the university's mathematics department and mathematics pedagogy in the education department. Such program structures make it difficult to authentically interweave content with pedagogy in ways that acknowledge the roles of both mathematicians and mathematics educators in preparing future teachers. This article reports on a project that deliberately fostered collaboration between mathematicians and mathematics educators in six Australian universities in order to investigate the potential for learning at the boundaries between the two disciplinary communities. Data sources included two rounds of interviews with mathematicians and mathematics educators and annual reports prepared by each participating university over the three years of the project. The study identified interdisciplinary boundary practices that led to integration of content and pedagogy through new courses co-developed and co-taught by mathematicians and mathematics educators, and new approaches to building communities of pre-service teachers. It also developed an evidence-based classification of conditions that enable or hinder sustained collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, together with an empirical grounding for Akkerman and Bakker's conceptualisation of transformation as a mechanism for learning at the boundary between communities. The study additionally highlighted the ambiguous nature of boundaries and implications for brokers who work there to connect disciplinary paradigms.

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