Graduate School REMATH: Researching Practice-Based Mathematics Teacher Education

The doctoral programme REMATH: Researching Practice-Based Mathematics Teacher Education has nine doctoral students across the universities of Stockholm, Kristianstad, Mälardalen and Dalarna.

It operates from the guiding question of what it takes for student teachers to learn the mathematical work of teaching needed to engage in deliberate and equitable practice.Practice-based teacher education addresses what it takes to learn in and from practice, how high-leverage practices can be transformed into university settings, making the work of teachers visible for student teachers and how programme components can contribute to a stronger research-based education.The graduate school will engage the following three foci:Studies on current implementations of elements of practice-based mathematics teacher education across teacher education environments in Sweden and abroad.Research on alternative implementations of practice-based mathematics teacher education in Swedish and international contexts.Research on teaching for equity and social justice in mathematics teacher education.It is expected that addressing these foci, through elaborating key concepts theoretically and through critically engaging desired mathematics education practices, the doctoral projects will collectively contribute to further the understanding and characterisation of the mathematical work of teaching, and how teacher education can facilitate learning these components of practice.