Author ORCID Identifier
Ricela Feliciano-Semidei: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2620-0612
Publication Title
Linguistics and Education
ISSN
08985898
E-ISSN
43862
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Teachers construct professional identities within community as they converse about their work and negotiate what it means to be a teacher. Grossman, Wineburg, and Woolworth (2001) suggest that such negotiation must account for an essential tension between focusing on pedagogical versus disciplinary concerns. How teachers navigate this tension and what this means for their joint production of identity and community is unclear. This gap in the literature became evident in our work with Math Teachers’ Circles (MTC), where we observed K-12 math teachers indexing instructional experiences and concerns despite the program's explicit invitation to set teaching aside and do math problems together for pleasure. Drawing upon a community of practice framework and positioning theory, we consider the work this professional talk accomplished within MTC gatherings. We show how the teachers positioned themselves and established their community, thereby producing hybrid identities and MTCs as a kind of hybrid community.
Publication Date
2-1-2020
DOI
10.1016/j.linged.2019.100766
Keywords
Essential tension, Hybridity, Math teachers, Teacher community, Teacher professional identity, Teacher talk
Recommended Citation
Renga, Ian P.; Peck, Frederick A.; Feliciano-Semidei, Ricela; Erickson, David; and Wu, Ke, "Doing math and talking school: Professional talk as producing hybridity in teacher identity and community" (2020). NIU Bibliography. 501.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/niubib/501
Department
Department of Mathematical Sciences
