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ABSTRACT This study explored mathematics teachers’ reasoning regarding their instructional design for technology use in teaching mathematics. Various types of qualitative data were obtained and analysed from a sample of 19 secondary and 28 primary preservice teachers. The findings showed that the purposes of technology use, teachers’ conceptions of mathematics and its learning, their learning experience and knowledge of student thinking as well as mathematical cognition, and empirical inquiry were the main sources of teacher reasoning. Three levels of teacher reasoning were identified: descriptive, explanatory, and justifying. Our findings contributed to research on teacher professional development by identifying four types of technology use with a variety of pedagogical purposes, and formulating two main dimensions to characterise the three levels of teacher reasoning.
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This journal promotes rigorous research that makes a significant contribution to advancing knowledge in teacher education across early childhood, primary, secondary, vocational education and training, and higher education. The journal editors invite for peer review theoretically informed papers - including, but not limited to, empirically grounded research - which focus on significant issues relevant to an international audience in regards to: Teacher education (including initial teacher education and ongoing professional education) of teachers internationally; The cultural, economic, political, social and/or technological dimensions and contexts of teacher education; Change, stability, reform and resistance in (and relating to) teacher education; Improving the quality and impact of research in teacher education.