Nolan, Brien and Dempsey, Majella and Lovatt, James and O'Shea, Ann (2015) Developing Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) for pre-service teachers: a study of students’ developing thinking in relation to the teaching of mathematics. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 35 (1).

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Abstract

The concept of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) was introduced by Ball and colleagues (Ball, Thames & Phelps, 2008), building on Shulman’s (1986) notion of Pedagogical Content Knowledge. MKT is ‘the mathematical knowledge needed to carry out the work of teaching mathematics’. In this project, a team of researchers at two Irish universities studied the development of MKT in two groups of pre-service teachers. The project aimed to help students develop their own MKT, and to develop a richer conception of the role of mathematics content knowledge in teaching, through a series of workshops designed and delivered by the authors. The students’ awareness and level of MKT was investigated using pre- and post-intervention questionnaires. We describe the intervention and present the findings from the analysis of the data collected. In particular, we describe how the group’s view of the mathematical work of a teacher changed over the course of the project.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	teacher education; Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematics and Statistics
Item ID:	7023
Depositing User:	Dr. Ann O'Shea
Date Deposited:	15 Mar 2016 18:11
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Organisation
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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