Caught in the Act: Reflections on Continuing Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers in a Collabrative Partnership

Cyril Julie · Lorna Holtman · Charles R. Smith

Dec 2019 · AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

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The research reported in Caught in the Act draws together the insights gained from a continuous professional development initiative for high school mathematics teachers, teaching in low socio-economic status and socially challenged environments in South Africa. The chapters show the possibilities for enhancing achievement in school mathematics if a strength-based approach is adopted to develop teaching with teachers and when their concerns are taken seriously. The book demonstrates that the ecological relevance – fitness for the context in which teachers are teaching – of the “goods” developed and distributed by initiatives should be a major consideration to offer hope for sustainable implementation to improve school mathematics education. The book is of interest to mathematics teachers, school leaders, mathematics curriculum advisors, policy makers and researchers.

About the author

Cyril Julie is holder of a South African Research Chair Initiative in Mathematics Education at the University of the Western Cape. His research interests are in the development of mathematics teaching, mathematical modelling and political, social, historical and philosophical issues in mathematics education. Lorna Holtman is the Director of the Postgraduate Studies at the University of the Western Cape and an Associate Professor in Science Education. Her research interests are in curriculum studies in Science and research capacity development of post‑graduate students for the past 13 years. Charles Raymond Smith is a former senior curriculum planner for Mathematics in the Western Cape Education Department. He later joined LEDIMTALI as a full-time doctoral research fellow. Currently he is a post-doctoral fellow in the project. His research interest is in the continuing professional development of mathematics teachers and the interesection of school mathematics and Mathematics.

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