Tables of contents

‘It has always been my dream’: exploring pre-service teachers’ motivations for choosing to teach

Jackie Manuel, John Hughes

5

Initial teacher preparation for special educational needs: policy and practice in the North and South of Ireland

Hugh Kearns, Michael Shevlin

25

Effective teaching: an elusive concept

Denis Hayes

43

The Staircase of teacher development: a perspective on the process and consequences of the unity and integration of self

Margaret E Bérci

55

Changing teaching and learning relationships through collaborative action research: learning to ask different questions

Paula Harrington, Katy Gillam, Jane Andrews, Christopher Day

73

English language teachers’ professional uses of email

Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan, Mohamed Amin Embi

87

Students’ perceptions of problem-based learning

Muthu Kumar, Galyna Kogut

105

Maintaining interaction at the zone of proximal development through reflexive practice and action research

Angela Lisle

117

Induction rites and wrongs: the ‘educational vandalism’ of new teachers’ professional development

Sara Bubb, Peter Earley

5

Educational process reflection (EPR): an evaluation of a model for professional development concerning social interaction and educational climate in the Swedish preschool

Kerstin Bygdeson-Larsson

13

Primary teachers’ perceptions of the impact of initial teacher training upon primary schools

Alison Price, Jenny Willett

33

Teacher professional development in Cyprus: reflections on current trends and challenges in policy and practices

Yiasemina Karagiorgi, Loizos Symeou

47

Teacher education and training in China: evaluating change with Chinese lecturers of English

Judith M Lamie

63

Science learning centres and governmental policy for continuing professional development (CPD) in England

Keith Bishop, Paul Denleg

85

Becoming a head teacher: the perspectives of new head teachers in twenty-first-century England

Chris Holligan, Ian Menter, Merryn Hutchings, Maggie Walker

103

What is needed to improve teacher in-service education in Kyrgyzstan?

Toichubek B Kabylov

123

What is the point of professional development? The first three years of a longitudinal research survey

Bill Boyle, Jason Lamprianou

129

Left-ventricle reduction through an ethnomathematics lens

Tod Shockey

2

Values in mathematics and science education: researchers’ and teachers’ views on the similarities and differences

Alan Bishop, Barbara Clarke, Debbie Corrigan and Dick Gunstone

7

Hidden mathematics curriculum: a positive learning framework

Sergei Abramovich and Peter Brouwer

12

Musings on mathematical creativity

Peter Liljedhal, Bharath Sriraman

17

Subject-specific pedagogy: global and local aspects

20

Dynamic representation, connections and meaning in mathematical problem solving

21

Jim Kaput – 1942–2005: a mentor, a colleague, a friend

Stephen Hegedus

26

The impact of information and communication technology on our understanding of the nature of mathematics

Frederick K S Leung

29

Modes of algebraic communication: moving from spreadsheets to standard notation

Liz Bills, Janet Ainley, Kirsty Wilson

36

Word problems as simulations of real-world situations: a proposed framework

Torulf Palm

42

A power station and a flower garden 

June Factor

2 

Student voice: are we listening? 

Peter Kent

5 

Beyond multiculturalism in the curriculum 

Megan Blair

7 

Time to pause and reflect 

Julie Boyd

10 

Accountability: what's worth measuring? 

Mary Anne Raywid

16 

The effects of student mobility on learners and schools 

Reesa Sorin

21 

Supporting students with an autistic spectrum disorder 

Joy Beaney

25 

How virtuous are you? 

Bob Hince

27 

Using stories to prevent bullying 

Susanne Gervay

29 

A journey of discovery: school crisis management 

Vicki Trethowan

31 

Postcard from a principal 

David Harrington

34 

Escaping from the past: a new perspective on workforce reform 

Peter Kent

36 

The wish to be thin 

Hayley Dohnt

38 

School-based experience: an imperative for trainee teachers 

Antonia Gulin, Ken Thompson

40 

The classroom: an emotional minefield 

John Frew

42