Discourse Practices of Mathematics Teacher Educators in Initial Teacher Training Colleges in Malawi
Type: EducationLanguagesMathematicsThesesPhD Theses
Year of Publishing: 2009
Keywords: discourse practices, mathematics education
This is a qualitative research that draws on Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis methodology to analyze the discourse practices of the mathematics teacher educators in initial teacher training colleges in Malawi. The study involved four mathematics teacher educators in two teacher training colleges located in two different regions of Malawi. Specifically the study explored the following questions: 1) What are the discourse practices that mathematics teacher educators display in their descriptions of multilingual mathematics classrooms?
