Cover -- Mathematics Teacher Education: Critical International Perspectives -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Series Editor's Preface -- Section One Openings -- Introduction -- 1 Charting a Historical Perspective -- Section Two International Perspectives in Mathematics Teacher Education -- 2 Changing Mathematics Instructionand Assessment: Challenging Teachers' Conceptions -- 3 The Institute for the Learning and Teaching of Mathematics' -- 4 Teachers' Mathematical Experiences as Links to Children's Needs -- 5 Inservice in Lebanon -- 6 Primary Teachers and the Using of Materials in Problem Solving in Portugal -- 7 Mathematics Classroom Situations: An Inservice Course for Elementary School Teachers -- 8 Dilemmas of Constructivist Mathematics Teaching: Instances from Classroom Practice -- 9 Changing Teaching in a Changing Society -- 10 Teachers' Knowledge of Mathematics and Reflective Professional Development -- 11 PFL-Mathematics: Improving Professional Practice in Mathematics Teaching -- 12 Circling the Square: Issues and Dilemmas Concerning Teacher Transformation -- Section Three Critical Perspectives Linking Theory and Practice in Mathematics Teacher Education -- 13 Themes and Issues in Inservice Programmes -- 14 The Enactive Perspective on Teacher Development: 'A path laid while walking' -- 15 Approaching Teacher Development: Practice into Theory -- 16 The Plurality of Knowledge Growth in Mathematics Teaching -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.