Mathematics teachers as products and agents: To be and not to be. That’s the point!

Alex Montecino; Paola Valero

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-34006-7_9

Mathematics teachers as products and agents: To be and not to be. That’s the point!

Alex Montecino
, Paola Valero

Aalborg University
Stockholm University

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Abstract

Studying mathematics teachers in the Political invites to understand how teachers’ subjectivities emerge in the entanglement of the individual in discursivematerial formations. We focus on the power effects of the expert discourses by international agencies such as OECD and UNESCO in the fabrication of the mathematics teacher’s subjectivity. Deploying a Foucault-inspired discourse analysis on a series of documents produced by these agencies, we argue that nowadays cultural thesis about who the mathematics teacher should be are framed in a double bind of the teacher as a policy product and as a sales agent. Narratives about the mathematics teacher are made possible within a dispositive of control, which makes mathematics education and mathematics teachers the cornerstone for realizing current market- oriented, competitive, and globalized societies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Disorder of Mathematics Education
Subtitle of host publication	Challenging the Sociopolitical Dimensions of Research
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	135-152
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319340067
ISBN (Print)	9783319340050
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34006-7_9
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Economic Cooperation
Effective Teacher
International Agency
Mathematics Achievement
Mathematics Teacher

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