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The focus of this thesis is on in-service multilingual mathematics teachers in multilingual mathematics classrooms in Swedish compulsory education. The aim is to explore and describe multilingual mathematics teachers’ professional identity in relation to the school and multilingual mathematics classroom. The research questions explored are, 

1. What social practices and figured worlds are related to multilingual mathematics teachers’ professional identities?
2. How do teaching in a multilingual mathematics classroom and multilingual mathematics teachers’ professional identities relate?
3. How does multilingual mathematics teachers’ professional identity relate to teachers’ past and present professional experiences?
The theoretical framework of Patterns of Participation (PoP) is followed, which allows to disentangle the social and individual aspects of multilingual mathematics teachers' experiences in the multilingual mathematics classroom. The study is a case study of two multilingual mathematics teachers who were followed for two academic years.

An ethnographic approach to data collection was followed, with empirical material consisting of observations of mathematics lessons, teachers' meetings and discussions at the school of each teacher. Moreover, empirical material consists also of interviews about the teachers’ backgrounds and stimulated-recall interviews where the teachers reflected on instances from the classroom. The analysis was conducted in several steps. An inductive thematic approach was followed to analyse the interviews.
Different social aspects, particularly practices and figured worlds, which relate to multilingual mathematics teachers' professional identity, were constructed through this analysis. Then, the PoP framework was utilised to illustrate how the teacher engages in the multiple social aspects when participating in classroom practice.

Finally, the PoP was utilised for interpreting the multilingual mathematics experiences in multilingual mathematics classrooms. The opponent is Alexander Schüler Meyer from Eindhoven University of Technology. https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/alexander-schueler-meyer

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