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Preservice teachers´ attitudes towards mathematics
Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Educational Sciences and Mathematics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4559-3500
Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Educational Sciences and Mathematics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6586-7519
2023 (English)In: 31st EECERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Children’s Curiosity, Agency and Participation :Challenges for Professional Action and Development Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal 30th August – 2nd September 2023 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Book of Abstracts, 2023, p. 208-Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Researchers emphasise the importance for early childhood teacher education (ECTE) to promote positive attitudes towardsmathematics (Hollingsworth & Knight McKennas, 2018). The aim of this study is to investigate preservice teachers' attitudes totowards mathematics, whether and how attitudes change during ECTE and what might cause the changes. Previous research showsthat many preservice and early childhood teachers have low self-confidence and negative attitudes towards mathematics (Gresham& Burleigh, 2019; Hollingsworth & Knight McKenna, 2018; Linder & Simpson, 2018; Palmer, 2010). These negative attitudesinfluence their teaching of mathematics, which in turn affects children’s possibilities to learn (Geist, 2015; Knaus, 2017; Linder &Simpson; 2018; Youmans et al., 2018). We use the concept of attitude and adopt a multidimensional definition, where cognitive aswell as affective and behavioral components are included (Wen & Dube, 2022). We will use a short form of Tapia and Marsh's (2004)Attitudes Towards Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) questionnaire, developed and tested by Lim and Chapman (2013), together withcomplementing open questions. Ethical considerations are made according to the guidelines of the Swedish Research Council (2017).Based on the results, we will describe preservice teachers' attitudes towards mathematics during different parts of their education,as well as what influences these and how ECTE can contribute to promoting positive attitudes. The study can provide knowledgeabout how ECTE can support the development of positive attitudes towards mathematics, with the ultimate aim to enable earlychildhood education teachers to teach mathematics using children’s curiosity and interest.

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2023. p. 208-
Keywords [en]
early childhood teacher education, mathematics, attitudes, preservice teacher, questionnaire
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-64670OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-64670DiVA, id: diva2:1809731
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31st EECERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Children’s Curiosity, Agency and Participation :Challenges for Professional Action and Development Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal 30th August – 2nd September 2023
Available from: 2023-11-06 Created: 2023-11-06 Last updated: 2023-11-06Bibliographically approved

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