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This chapter presents a narrative of ‘snapshots’ taken from a socio-cultural study conducted with a group of mathematics teachers from an Eastern Cape primary school in South Africa. Conversations focusing on the teachers’ personal experiences of education are placed against the backdrop of the national socio-political transformation taking place in South Africa. Emphasis is placed on the centrality of the teachers’ voice, giving expression to their individual experiences, their feelings and their beliefs. The study highlights dimensions of a ‘journey’—a journey that could be seen as one not dissimilar to that which the society itself is undergoing, one that resonates with the bigger picture. Indeed— in a parallel to the national move towards openness—the conversations with the teachers reveal a movement from a ‘closed’ atmosphere of constrained co-operation, towards a more ‘open’ one of freer collaboration.
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Southwood, S., Kuiper, J. (2003). A Journey Towards Collaboration. In: Peter-Koop, A., Santos-Wagner, V., Breen, C., Begg, A. (eds) Collaboration in Teacher Education. Mathematics Teacher Education, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1072-5_2
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