%0 Journal Article
%T A snapshot in time: Beliefs and practices of a pre-service mathematics teacher through the lens of changing contexts and situations
%A Lyn Webb
%A Paul Webb
%J Pythagoras
%D 2011
%I AOSIS OpenJournals
%R 10.4102/pythagoras.v33i68.66
%X For the last decade research on teachers¡¯ beliefs has made a distinction between mathematics teachers¡¯ professed and attributed beliefs  (practice)  and studies have either found some or no correlation between the two. In this paper we  investigate the beliefs and practices of a novice teacher and conclude that inconsistency between beliefs and practices may be an observer¡¯s perspective that is not necessarily shared by the teacher, and that the view that there is a possible disjuncture does not do justice to the complexity of the practitioner¡¯s tasks nor to the rapidly changing contexts and situations that may occur within a single lesson.
%U http://www.pythagoras.org.za/index.php/pythagoras/article/view/66