Making visible a teacher’s pedagogical reasoning: an aspect of pedagogical documentation

Abstract

Much of a teacher’s practice and professional learning remains unseen despite recent calls to incorporate practice-based and inquiry-based approaches to improve mathematics instruction. Although the idea of pedagogical reasoning and action can provide a way to unpack these unseen aspects of practice, it remains to be seen how a teacher’s actions and thinking can be made visible. In this paper, we present a case of how a teacher’s pedagogical reasoning is made visible through pedagogical documentation, which suggests the possibility of using documentation to unpack these unseen aspects of a teacher’s practices.