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Students' views on their transition from school to college mathematics: rethinking ‘transition’ as an issue of identity

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Eirini Kouvela, Paul Hernandez-Martinez & Tony Croft. (2017) “This is what you need to be learning”: an analysis of messages received by first-year mathematics students during their transition to university. Mathematics Education Research Journal 30:2, pages 165-183.
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Peter Kelly & Hans-Georg Kotthoff. (2017) PISA, National and Regional Education Policies and their Effect on Mathematics Teaching in England and Germany. Research in Comparative and International Education 12:3, pages 318-332.
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Eva Jablonka, Hoda Ashjari & Christer Bergsten. (2016) “Much Palaver About Greater Than Zero and Such Stuff” – First Year Engineering Students’ Recognition of University Mathematics. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education 3:1, pages 69-107.
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Paul Hernandez‐Martinez & Julian Williams. (2013) Against the odds: resilience in mathematics students in transition. British Educational Research Journal 39:1, pages 45-59.
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Julian Williams. (2011) Use and exchange value in mathematics education: contemporary CHAT meets Bourdieu’s sociology. Educational Studies in Mathematics 80:1-2, pages 57-72.
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