Mathematics Education Communities: Crossing Virtual Boundaries
Published: 2020
Publication Name: Borders in Mathematics Pre-Service Teacher Education
Publication URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44292-7_10
Abstract:
As social media has grown, participation in virtual communities focused on the teaching and learning of mathematics has become a norm within the field of mathematics education. Little work has been done within the field to understand the evolving landscape these communities present and the boundaries that educators, both new and old, create, cross, or demolish through community participation. In this chapter, we draw upon theoretical work in communities of practice and boundary crossing to build a framework for understanding mathematics education communities. Using this framework, we then present profiles of several communities currently popular within North America. In doing so, we demonstrate how the framework can serve as a tool to examine aspects of these communities and understand the boundaries associated with them.
Hertel, J.T., Wessman-Enzinger, N.M., Dimmel, J.K. (2020). Mathematics Education Communities: Crossing Virtual Boundaries. In N. Radakovic, & L. Jao (Eds.) Borders in Mathematics Pre-Service Teacher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44292-7_10