The Pedagogical Knowledge Deployed by a Primary Mathematics Teacher Educator in Teaching Symmetry

Isabel Pascual Mª, Miguel Montes and Luis Carlos Contreras
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Isabel Pascual Mª: Research Center COIDESO, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
Miguel Montes: Research Center COIDESO, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
Luis Carlos Contreras: Research Center COIDESO, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 11, 1-12

Abstract: Although the knowledge required by mathematics teacher educators is a relatively recent area of research, there has been significant progress in the field over the last few years. The classic distinction of a teacher’s knowledge into content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge prompts us to reflect in this regard on what should constitute the content of primary teacher education programmes, and how the educator might mediate this content to make it accessible to their prospective teachers. This paper aims to contribute to this progress through a study into the work of Lucas, a teacher educator, during the course of a training session with prospective primary teachers. Critical observation of the video recording brought to the fore salient teaching situations on the topic of symmetry, which led us to explore the pedagogical content knowledge deployed in the session through a guided interview with the educator. Analysis of extracts from this interview enabled us to identify three main categories of this PCK: knowledge about how to teach programme content; knowledge about the characteristics of prospective primary teachers’ learning; and knowledge about the standards and norms of primary teacher education programmes.

Keywords: primary mathematics teacher educator knowledge; pedagogical content knowledge in teacher education; primary teacher education; symmetry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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