| Abstract: | Today, teachers are expected to be able to make informed decisions about curriculum, be aware of current teaching methodologies, and be conversant with the latest educational theory. Keeping up to date is not easy. Fortunately, professional journals do provide one avenue by which teachers can stay abreast of current developments. However, do teachers read professional journals? The study reported here surveyed 439 Australian mathematics teachers from 73 secondary schools to establish which mathematics teacher education journals they had heard of and to determine the extent to which they read these journals. The results indicate that the majority of mathematics teachers neither are regular readers of professional journals nor are they aware of them. Moreover, if journals are read, they are generally those obtained with membership of professional organisations. |
