Chapter 2 “I Like to Give Things a Story”: One Teacher’s View of Teaching Mathematics
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Abstract
In previous writing linked to the theme of story (e.g., Brown & Coles, 2019), Laurinda has written about the use of story as a pedagogical tool in mathematics teacher education research and as a methodological tool, narrative interviewing. Using the technique of narrative interviewing, Laurinda invited individual teachers to stay with the detail of their first lesson, or sometimes first few lessons, teaching mathematics to a new group of children. The focus of the interviews was to uncover what experienced teachers do to establish their ways of working. This chapter focuses on the practices of one of the teachers who likes “to give things a story”, exploring what they mean by story; what this looks like in their classroom; and the impact on student learning. Lolis’s perspectives on phenomenology support the analysis of the data in a different context.