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Barbara Kinach

UMBC-BCPS STEM Project (Math Higher Ed)

BIO:
Barbara Kinach is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in mathematics, mathematics teacher education, and curriculum philosophy. Her research interests include teachers content knowledge, the mathematical preparation of teachers, the mathematics methods course, and teacher education reform. Her current book project, "Teaching Mathematics for Understanding: An Experiential Approach" will be published by Allyn and Bacon.
Site Contributions:

Area of Expertise:
mathematics
mathematics education
mathematics teacher preparation
subject-matter knowledge
pedagogical content knowledge
teacher subject-matter preparation across the disciplines
history and philosophy of mathematics/science as it relates to teacher epistemology and curriculum
Recent Publications:
Kinach B. M. 2005. Grounded Theory. Routledge encyclopedia of social Theory. (Invited Entry).

Kinach, B. M. 2002. Understanding and learning-to-explain by representing mathematics: Epistemological dilemmas facing teacher educators in the secondary mathematics "methods" course. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education 5(2): 1-34.

Kinach, B. M. 2002. A cognitive strategy for developing prospective teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in the secondary mathematics methods course: Toward a model of effective practice. Teaching and Teacher Education 18(1): 51 -71.

Kinach B. M. 2001. Teaching critical thinking through cultural perspective-taking: Potential insights for the Asian Critical Thinking Movement from multicultural education reform in the United States. Manusya: Journal of Humanities 1(2): 181-204.

Kinach, B. M. (2006, under review). When the equation is a question (and not a statement) about equality: Developing knowledge of algebra for teaching.

FULL NAME:
Barbara M. Kinach

TITLE:
Associate Professor of Mathematics Education
ORGANIZATION:
UMBC
Education

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