Roles, Identities and Interactions of Various Participants in Mathematics Teacher Collaboration

Abstract

Mathematics teacher collaboration often involves additional participants and stakeholders besides the collaborating teachers themselves. These may include facilitators, mathematicians, researchers, administrators, policy makers or other professionals who assume a variety of roles in regard to the endeavoured collaboration. Such actors may have a significant impact on the collaboration's productiveness, either from within the collaboration, for example when diverse perspectives are shared amongst group members with different expertise (Robutti et al., 2016), or