Theoretical Perspectives on Studying Mathematics Teacher Collaboration

Abstract

The aims of this chapter are: (i) to showcase the state-of-the-art for theoretical perspectives for studying mathematics teacher collaboration; (ii) to identify promising theoretical and methodological perspectives for future studies. The ideas that are synthesised in this chapter are based on the presentations, papers, and discussions that occurred as part of the ICMI Study 25 Conference. In this introductory section, we briefly review the results from the previous ICME-13 research survey on mathematics teacher collaboration (Robutti et al., 2016;Jaworski et al., 2017). These results, which functioned as a starting place for the Theme A Working Group, not only informed the organisation of our group but were also reified in the ICMI Study 25 Conference discussion document (IPC, 2019).