Chapter 5 A math-avoidant profession?

Despite positive attitudes towards mathematics, it must be assumed that mathematics anxiety is a factor not to be underestimated in (pre-service) early childhood teachers. In the first part, this article reviews the current international state of research on early childhood teachers’ mathematics anx...

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description Despite positive attitudes towards mathematics, it must be assumed that mathematics anxiety is a factor not to be underestimated in (pre-service) early childhood teachers. In the first part, this article reviews the current international state of research on early childhood teachers’ mathematics anxiety and shows the achievements and limitations of previous studies. The majority of the reviewed studies deals with pre-service early childhood teachers and their teacher education. Only a few studies tried to relate in-service early childhood teachers’ mathematics anxiety and children’s mathematical achievement. In the second part, this contribution examines empirically whether it can be assumed that the profession “early childhood teacher” can be characterized as “math-avoidant”. For this purpose, n = 774 German pre-service early childhood teachers were examined with regard to their mathematics anxiety and their choice of career. The results indicate effects of mathematics anxiety on the intentional choice to work as an early childhood teacher. The paper concludes with a general conclusion on the importance of mathematics anxiety for early childhood teachers’ professional competence and an outlook on future research.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-721732025-08-13T14:11:14Z Chapter 5 A math-avoidant profession? Jenßen, Lars Childhood, Competence, Early, Mathematics, professional, teachers, Simone, Dunekacke, Aljoscha ,Jegodtka, Thomas, Koinzer, Katja, Eilerts and Lars ,Jenßen thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNL Schools and pre-schools::JNLB Primary and middle schools thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNL Schools and pre-schools::JNLB Primary and middle schools Despite positive attitudes towards mathematics, it must be assumed that mathematics anxiety is a factor not to be underestimated in (pre-service) early childhood teachers. In the first part, this article reviews the current international state of research on early childhood teachers’ mathematics anxiety and shows the achievements and limitations of previous studies. The majority of the reviewed studies deals with pre-service early childhood teachers and their teacher education. Only a few studies tried to relate in-service early childhood teachers’ mathematics anxiety and children’s mathematical achievement. In the second part, this contribution examines empirically whether it can be assumed that the profession “early childhood teacher” can be characterized as “math-avoidant”. For this purpose, n = 774 German pre-service early childhood teachers were examined with regard to their mathematics anxiety and their choice of career. The results indicate effects of mathematics anxiety on the intentional choice to work as an early childhood teacher. The paper concludes with a general conclusion on the importance of mathematics anxiety for early childhood teachers’ professional competence and an outlook on future research. 2021-10-08T04:04:03Z 2021-10-08T04:04:03Z 2021-10-07T09:29:17Z 2021 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50851 9781032000541 9781032000558 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72173 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50851/1/9781003172529_10.4324_9781003172529-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50851/1/9781003172529_10.4324_9781003172529-6.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003172529-6 10.4324/9781003172529-6 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Early Childhood Teachers‘ Professional Competence in Mathematics 9781032000541 9781032000558 Routledge 19 open access
spellingShingle Childhood, Competence, Early, Mathematics, professional, teachers, Simone, Dunekacke, Aljoscha ,Jegodtka, Thomas, Koinzer, Katja, Eilerts and Lars ,Jenßen
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNL Schools and pre-schools::JNLB Primary and middle schools
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNL Schools and pre-schools::JNLB Primary and middle schools
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Chapter 5 A math-avoidant profession?
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topic Childhood, Competence, Early, Mathematics, professional, teachers, Simone, Dunekacke, Aljoscha ,Jegodtka, Thomas, Koinzer, Katja, Eilerts and Lars ,Jenßen
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