An Analysis of the New Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education Curriculum in Turkey

Date

2007-01-01

Author

Isıksal Bostan, Mıne
Koç, Yusuf
Bulut, Safure
Tulay, Atay Turhan

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The purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the changes in the new elementary mathematics teacher education curriculum in Turkey. It is our goal to share the revised teacher education curriculum with the outside mathematics teacher education community. The paper is organized around four major sections: An overview of the teacher education system in Turkey, the characteristics of the previous mathematics teacher education curriculum, the need for the revisions, and characteristics of the revised curriculum.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84617
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ841565.pdf

Journal

The Mathematics Educator

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Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Article

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M. Isıksal Bostan, Y. Koç, S. Bulut, and A. T. Tulay, “An Analysis of the New Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education Curriculum in Turkey,” The Mathematics Educator, pp. 41–51, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84617.