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This article presents preliminary results from a survey commissioned for ICME 13 (2016) focusing on “Teachers Working and Learning Through Collaboration”. It takes as a starting point a previous survey, commissioned for ICME 10 in 2004 that focused on Mathematics Teacher Education. The current survey focuses centrally on teachers involved in collaborations, sometimes in formal settings of professional development, but also in a more diverse range of collaborative settings including research initiatives. The roles of teachers involved in the collaboration, survey methods, decisions and limitations are described. While some of the findings to date resonate with those of the earlier survey, other findings highlight characteristics and issues relating to the differing ways in which teachers collaborate, either with other teachers or the various ‘others’, most notably mathematics teacher educator researchers. The roles and relationships that contribute to learning in such collaborations, as well as theories and methodologies found in survey sources, are a focus of the findings presented here. Studies rarely theorised collaboration, and few of those that did so reported explicitly on how their theoretical frame shaped the design of research methodologies/approaches guiding activities with teachers. One significant outcome has been the difficulty of relating teachers’ learning to collaboration within a project, although many initiatives report developments in teaching, teacher learning and students’ learning.
Details
Title
ICME international survey on teachers working and learning through collaboration: June 2016
Authors
Ornella Robutti (Author) - University of Turin
Annalisa Cusi (Author) - University of Turin
Alison Clark-Wilson (Author) - University College London
Barbara Jaworski (Author) - Loughborough University
Olive Chapman (Author) - University of Calgary
Cristina Esteley (Author) - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Merrilyn Goos (Author) - The University of Queensland
Masami Isoda (Author) - University of Tsukuba
Marie Joubert (Author) - African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Publication details
ZDM, Vol.48(5), pp.651-690
Publisher
Springer
Date published
2016
DOI
10.1007/s11858-016-0797-5
ISSN
1863-9704; 1863-9690
Copyright note
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Organisation Unit
School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland