Tracing Teacher Learning through Shifts in Discourses: The Case of a Mathematics Teacher

Emine Gül Çelebi İlhan; Ayhan Kürşat ERBAŞ

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Emine Gül Çelebi İlhan ¹ ^* , Ayhan Kürşat ERBAŞ ¹

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¹ Middle East Technical University^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Background:
This study presents a methodology for investigating teacher learning in and from practice based on discourses that are in constant flux and transformation. Conceptualizing teacher learning as a frame of meaning based on knowing and doing discourses, the ideas are illustrated through data collected from a secondary mathematics teacher conducting an inquiry of self-practice.

Material and methods:
Narrative analysis of the data from the teacher interviews was conducted along with classroom observations of the teacher’s mathematical practice

Results:
The data supported that tracing shifts in teacher discourses enables to understand the connection between the teacher’s past discourses and the present discourses when identifying teacher learning.

Conclusions:
It is concluded that tracking teacher learning through two complementary discourses of the teacher’s instructional practice enabled a unification of individual and collective levels of the teacher learning by self-inquiry of own practice. Moreover, through the continuum of discourses, this study provided insights about the generation of new meanings through transformation of old meanings in the teacher learning.

Keywords

discursive learning
learning in and from practice
teacher discourses
teacher learning
teacher practices

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İlhan, E. G. Ç., & ERBAŞ, A. K. (2017). Tracing Teacher Learning through Shifts in Discourses: The Case of a Mathematics Teacher. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(6), 1919-1942. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.01208a

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İlhan EGÇ, ERBAŞ AK. Tracing Teacher Learning through Shifts in Discourses: The Case of a Mathematics Teacher. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2017;13(6):1919-42. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.01208a

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İlhan EGÇ, ERBAŞ AK. Tracing Teacher Learning through Shifts in Discourses: The Case of a Mathematics Teacher. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2017;13(6), 1919-1942. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.01208a

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İlhan, Emine Gül Çelebi, and Ayhan Kürşat ERBAŞ. "Tracing Teacher Learning through Shifts in Discourses: The Case of a Mathematics Teacher". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2017 13 no. 6 (2017): 1919-1942. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.01208a

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İlhan, E. G. Ç., and ERBAŞ, A. K. (2017). Tracing Teacher Learning through Shifts in Discourses: The Case of a Mathematics Teacher. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(6), pp. 1919-1942. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.01208a

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İlhan, Emine Gül Çelebi et al. "Tracing Teacher Learning through Shifts in Discourses: The Case of a Mathematics Teacher". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 13, no. 6, 2017, pp. 1919-1942. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2017.01208a