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A Golden Braid:* Weaving Terry Wood’s unique threads of humanity in theory and practice

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posted on 2023-01-24, 16:29 authored by Barbara Jaworski
While reading, in other articles, about the authors’ experiences with and perspectives on the work of Terry Wood, I have been struck by the many facets of Terry’s work as a mathematics educator (researcher, teacher, mentor, and friend) that emerge article after article. Having agreed to write some synthesis of the articles, I have chosen the metaphor of a braid, woven in different ways by different authors (co-researchers, doctoral students, colleagues, and friends). All speak of Terry’s basic humanity (my words) as they have appreciated her contributions, both personal and professional, to their lives and work. From this, I draw many threads and diverse weavings. Not least, I weave my own experiences of and with Terry in contributing to my own life and work. I borrow (from Hofstadter, 1999) the term “Golden Braid,” as I believe this special issue reflects, repeatedly, a “golden” braiding in our relationships with Terry.

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematics Education Centre

Published in

Theory Into Practice

Volume

62

Issue

1

Pages

90-101

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Authors

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Acceptance date

2022-10-11

Publication date

2023-01-04

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

0040-5841

eISSN

1543-0421

Language

  • en

Depositor

Deposit date: 19 January 2023

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