But rather than starting out with a conception of mathematics derived from the many histories mathematics might claim as its own we centre the analysis instead within the social practices that surround the teaching of the subject to children aged four to eleven in English primary schools today.
Identifying with Mathematics Teaching.- Towards Reconciling Insider and Outsider Perspectives.- Conceptualising Identity in Initial Teacher Education.- Trainees Becoming Teachers: an English Case Study.- The English National Reform Agenda.- How Student Teachers Learn.- The Empirical Study.- The Transition from School Pupil to Trainee Teacher.- The Intermediate Years of Training.- The Transition from Trainee to Newly Qualified Teacher.- The Discursive Formation of School Mathematics.- The Production of Cover Stories.- The Emergence of School Mathematics.- The Secrets of the Forms of School Mathematics.- Conclusion.- Conceiving Policy.- Conceiving Teacher Development.- Conceiving Mathematics.- Conceiving Research.