SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS ABOUT THEIR CURRENT PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY

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Published: Jun 26, 2025
Ourania Georganta
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The dynamically accomplished nature of secondary mathematics teachers’ professional identity, through the emergence of new practices in time and in different contexts, illuminates, via teachers’ conceptions, aspects of their current professional identity, informing about the manner in which it is being developed.

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