Full Description
This book offers a counterpart to the extensive corpus of literature available on the same topic from a Western perspective. It showcases innovative approaches to professional development of mathematics teachers in Asian countries, and reports on both empirical and expository studies of teachers' professional development in these counties. It provides scholars from non-English-speaking and under-represented Asian countries the opportunity to engage in discourse with other scholars in the field, and is the first book to present substantial contributions from scholars in Asia on the professional development of mathematics teachers in their respective countries. It includes perspectives that shed valuable light on how the approaches pursued in Asian countries resemble or differ from those in the West.
Contents
1 Mathematics Teacher Professional Development: An Asian Perspective.- Part I.- 2 Professional Development of Secondary Mathematics Teachers in Mainland China.- 3 The Endless Long-Term Programme of Mathematics Teacher Professional Development in Indonesia.- 4 Lesson Study: The Fundamental Driver for Mathematics Teachers Development in Japan.- 5 Towards Balancing Knowledge and Practice of In-service Mathematics Teacher Education Program in Korea.- 6 Profiling Mathematics Teacher Professional Development in Malaysia.- 7 Congruence between Context and Opportunities for Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers in the Philippines.- 8 Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers in Singapore.- 9 Mathematics Teachers Professional Development in Taiwan.- Part II.- 10 Constraints and Affordances in bringing about Shifts in Practice towards Developing Reasoning in Mathematics: A Case Study.- 11 A Community-based, Practice-oriented teacher Professional Development Program: Changes inTeaching Culture in Korea.- 12 Classroom as a Site for Teacher Learning: Emergence of a Paradigm Shift in Mathematics Teacher Education in Pakistan.- 13 Teaching for Metacognition Project: Construction of Knowledge by Mathematics Teachers Working and Learning Collaboratively in Multitier Communities of Practice.- 14 Boundary Objects within a Replacement Unit Strategy for Mathematics Teacher Development.- 15 Facilitating Professional Growth of Taiwanese In-Service Mathematics Teachers through an Innovative School-based Program.- 16 School-based In-service Mathematics Teachers' Professional Development: Designing Diagnostic Conjecturing Activities.
