Book Review: Foundations for the next era of elementary mathematics teacher education. Yiping Li,Roger E. Howe,W. James Lewis,and James J. Madden (Eds.) (2021) Developing mathematical proficiency for elementary instruction

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Book Review: Networking theories as an example of boundary crossing. Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs and Susanne Prediger (Eds.) (2014) Networking of theories as a research practice in mathematics education

This review essay first discusses a book authored by the Networking Theories Group and argues that the strategies for networking of theories are very similar to the learning mechanisms identified in the literature on boundary crossing. I propose that these two theoretical perspectives may be put into a fruitful dialogue.     

The role of subject-matter content in teacher preparation: an international perspective for mathematics

International comparative studies in education provide a fresh perspective on K-12 education policy by enabling countries to learn from each other’s approaches. The recently conducted Teacher Education and Development Study—Mathematics provides a worldwide lens by which to examine the role of subject-matter in the preparation of US teachers of mathematics for primary and lower secondary students. More specifically, a previous study looking at the international top-performing teacher preparation programmes identified a common set of learning experiences (topics/content) related to mathematics. This empirically derived international benchmark is used in this paper to examine the quality of the mathematics preparation of future US teachers in various university and college programmes.     

Book Review: Transforming mathematics education: from embodied experiences to an ethical commitment. Luis Radford (2021) The theory of objectification: a Vygotskian perspective on knowing and becoming in mathematics teaching and learning

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Book Review: A common ground of mathematics and mathematics education for the classroom and for researchers. Erich Christian Wittmann (2021) Connecting mathematics and mathematics education. Collected papers on mathematics education as a design science

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Gerald H. Gaither,ed. (1998). Quality assurance in higher education: an international perspective

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Self-concept in reading: Factor structure,cross-cultural invariance and relationships with reading achievement in an international context (PIRLS 2011)

Using data from 48 countries, this study investigated the factorial structure and tested the cross-cultural invariance of the PIRLS 2011 reading self-concept scale and its relationships with reading achievement. The study showed that a two-factorial structure of the self-concept scale in reading had the best fit with the data. Configural invariance and metric invariance were achieved, scalar invariance was not. The two dimensions ‘Perception of competence’ and ‘Perception of difficulty’ showed robust within-country correlations with reading achievement, especially the second one. At the country level, the ‘Perception of competence’ was negatively related with reading, illustrating the attitudes-achievement paradox: countries in which students on average reported a more positive self-concept performed lower. On the contrary, for the ‘Perception of difficulty’, the sign of the correlation remained the same at the within-country and at the country level.