From P.A.Hernandez-Martinez at lboro.ac.uk Fri Oct 11 12:28:11 2013 From: P.A.Hernandez-Martinez at lboro.ac.uk (Paul Hernandez-Martinez) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:28:11 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] PhD Studentship - Loughborough University Message-ID: Postgraduate Research Studies in the Mathematics Education Centre, Loughborough University The Mathematics Education Centre (MEC) at Loughborough University is an internationally renowned centre of teaching, learning and support and is a key player in many high-profile national initiatives. With a growing number of academic staff and research students the MEC provides a vibrant, supportive community with a wealth of experience upon which to draw. We have a three year studentship to enable the successful applicant to undertake research at PhD level in the Mathematics Education Centre commencing in January 2014. This funding covers tuition fees at the UK/EU rate and a living stipend that is currently valued at ?13,726 per annum (for 2013-14). We welcome international applicants who are able to cover the difference between home and international fees. The closing date for applications is Thursday OCTOBER 31ST, 2013. For information on entry requirements and how to apply visit our webpage: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/mec/postgraduate/opportunities/ From Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Oct 21 14:26:31 2013 From: Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk (Peter Gates) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:26:31 +0100 Subject: [Maths-Education] FW: REMINDER - CRME SEMINAR - WEDNESDAY 23RD OCTOBER In-Reply-To: <1C1FC1512A281E478715BFEB5E37E8674F6EB70475@EXCHANGE2.ad.nottingham.ac.uk> References: <1C1FC1512A281E478715BFEB5E37E8674F6EB70475@EXCHANGE2.ad.nottingham.ac.uk> Message-ID: University of Nottinghamn Centre for Research in Mathematics Education CRME SEMINAR PROGRAMME 2013/14 Education of the rural and remote children: The InSPIRE project in Sabah Wednesday 23rd October 2013, 4.30 - 18.00, Room C40, School of Education, Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus Shafia Abdul Rahman, School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Rurality may take different meanings in different places. In Sabah, in north Borneo, rurality is often coupled with remoteness, as many rural schools are located in wide and isolated areas with unique terrain. As such, education of the rural and remote children and transformation of the schools serving these communities is not an easy task. Concerned with the low performance of these schools, the Sabah Foundation initiated the InSPIRE project (Integrated System of Programmed Instruction for Rural Environment) to improve rural schools' performance in four subject areas - Malay language, English language, Mathematics and Science. In this seminar, I will be discussing how the project was taken on board by the School of Education team and will be sharing some of the obstacles faced in the implementation of the project. I will also be discussing the development of the Mathematics modules. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE To attend, please contact educationresearchstaff at nottingham.ac.uk FLYER ATTACHED -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CRME_23Oct13.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 142059 bytes Desc: CRME_23Oct13.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From marievjoubert at gmail.com Tue Oct 22 14:12:09 2013 From: marievjoubert at gmail.com (Marie Joubert) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:12:09 +0100 Subject: [Maths-Education] Re: REMINDER - CRME SEMINAR - WEDNESDAY 23RD OCTOBER In-Reply-To: References: <1C1FC1512A281E478715BFEB5E37E8674F6EB70475@EXCHANGE2.ad.nottingham.ac.uk> Message-ID: <858C39FA-F359-425A-AAF9-7BC60B811182@gmail.com> Dear all Some people will be going out for a meal after the seminar. Anyone is welcome to join. I am also assuming that there will be a meal next week after Barbara Jaworski's seminar but I will check with her. Marie ------------------------------------------------- Marie Joubert Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics Education marie.joubert at nottingham.ac.uk marievjoubert at gmail.com On 21 Oct 2013, at 14:26, Peter Gates wrote: > University of Nottinghamn > Centre for Research in Mathematics Education > > CRME SEMINAR PROGRAMME 2013/14 > Education of the rural and remote children: The InSPIRE project in Sabah > Wednesday 23rd October 2013, 4.30 - 18.00, Room C40, School of Education, Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus > Shafia Abdul Rahman, School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia > > Rurality may take different meanings in different places. In Sabah, in north Borneo, rurality is often coupled with remoteness, as many rural schools are located in wide and isolated areas with unique terrain. As such, education of the rural and remote children and transformation of the schools serving these communities is not an easy task. Concerned with the low performance of these schools, the Sabah Foundation initiated the InSPIRE project (Integrated System of Programmed Instruction for Rural Environment) to improve rural schools' performance in four subject areas - Malay language, English language, Mathematics and Science. In this seminar, I will be discussing how the project was taken on board by the School of Education team and will be sharing some of the obstacles faced in the implementation of the project. I will also be discussing the development of the Mathematics modules. > > REFRESHMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE > > To attend, please contact educationresearchstaff at nottingham.ac.uk > FLYER ATTACHED > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. > > > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment > > may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EducationCRiME mailing list > EducationCRiME at lists.nottingham.ac.uk > http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/educationcrime > REPLY goes to sender only > REPLY ALL goes to list members From marievjoubert at gmail.com Thu Oct 24 12:31:35 2013 From: marievjoubert at gmail.com (Marie Joubert) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:31:35 +0100 Subject: [Maths-Education] Seminar at Nottingham (Barbara Jaworski) Message-ID: Colleagues See attached for a seminar organised by the Centre for Research in Mathematics Education at Nottingham. All welcome. There will be a meal afterwards at a local hostelry and again - all welcome. The attachment provides details about how to let us know you're coming but please get back to me if you have further queries. 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Plenary talks will be delivered by Markus Hohenwarter, Zsolt Lavicza , Celina Abar, Tomas Recio, and Balazs Koren. Also, there will be parallel sessions with interesting talks and workshops. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 December and registration is already open: http://events.geogebra.org/budapest2014/registration/ Payment methods will be announced later, but we encourage you to register for early bird fees and to receive further information. If you have any questions please contact Balazs Koren (balazs at geogebra.org), Zsolt Lavicza (zsolt at geogebra.org) and office at geogebra.org Hope to see you in Budapest! Best wishes, Zsolt ---------------------- Dr Zsolt Lavicza ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Director of Research and Community Development International GeoGebra Institute (IGI): http://geogebra.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Associate Lecturer: Educational Research Methods and Mathematics Education University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Queens' College http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/lavicza/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: zsolt at geogebra.org Phone (UK): +44 7962 488 222 (Hungary): +36 20 587 7847 ------------------------------------------ From birgit.pepin at hist.no Sun Oct 27 14:22:39 2013 From: birgit.pepin at hist.no (Birgit Pepin) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:22:39 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] =?windows-1252?q?_JMTE_Special_Issue-_Open_Call_=93Mathematics_T?= =?windows-1252?q?eachers_as_Partners_in_Task_Design=94?= Message-ID: <76EAEB8E403FAF43AD04D477C6694AAE9AB944DC@ex-mbx-1.res.hist.no> Dear colleague, Please find below the JMTE Special Issue- Open Call for ?Mathematics Teachers as Partners in Task Design?. The deadline for extended abstracts (of 500 words) is the 1rst January 2014. We look forward to your contributions! With best wishes, Birgit & Keith Birgit Pepin Professor of Mathematics Education H?gskolen i S?r-Tr?ndelag Avd. for l?rer- og tolkeutdanning 7004 Trondheim, Norway Tel. (+ 47) 735 59016 (office) (+47) 95 47 18 95 (mobile) Fax 73 55 98 51 JMTE Special Issue- Open Call ?Mathematics Teachers as Partners in Task Design? The recent Oxford Conference on the ICMI Study 22 ?Task Design in Mathematics Education? (Margolinas 2013) highlighted that ?the communities involved in task design are naturally overlapping and diverse? and that such design ?can involve designers, professional mathematicians, teacher educators, teachers, researchers, learners, authors, publishers and manufacturers, or combinations of these? (ICMI Study 22 discussion document). Here we focus on the need to bring together research on mathematics teachers as partners in task design. Mathematics teacher education and professional development is generally being viewed as one of the key ingredient for improving mathematics education in school. In most countries the perceived importance of teacher learning/professional development is directly related to the (sometimes ambitious) nature of reform goals and standards which politicians and government education departments wish to implement in schools. It is now widely accepted that meeting these goals requires a great deal of learning of the part of practicing teachers (who may have learnt to teach under a different instructional/learning paradigm). In this Special Issue we aim to identify and investigate the challenges that mathematics teacher educators/ professional developers and teachers are likely to encounter as they design and implement new ?tasks? to help teachers in their learning and (sometimes innovative) classroom practice. Just as the design of new tasks, including the nature of the resources used to accomplish the task, and the appropriation of the tasks in practice, can influence teacher learning, the tasks themselves can change and be enriched in the learning and appropriation process. In addition, and not less importantly, teacher educators/professional developers need to change in terms of moving from ?providing tasks and courses? for teachers, to working in partnership with teachers for task design in/for mathematics teaching and professional learning. We know from the literature (e.g. Gueudet et al. 2013) that ?true? communities of practice (Wenger 1998) do not develop as a matter of course. We see ?task design? here in the wider sense; that is tasks can be - mathematical tasks (including mathematical tools) developed and designed in/for teaching (e.g. tasks in/for textbooks); - learning sequences designed for teaching (e.g. ?didactical design?); - modules designed in/for professional learning. The Special issue has four sections: 1. Designing with tools 2. Designing for student learning & ?didactical designs? (e.g. Brousseau) 3. ?Design-in-use? 4. Design for/in teacher education/collectives/communities of practice/professional development This is an open call to the mathematics education community to suggest papers under one of the four headings. In order to be considered, please submit a 500 word extended abstract, clearly outlining the following: 1. title of the paper & author/s 2. Objectives/purpose/research question 3. Perspective/theoretical framework 4. Methods/ techniques/modes of inquiry 5. Data sources/evidence/materials 6. Results and/or substantiated conclusions or warrants for claims made/arguments/point of view 7. Scientific/scholarly significance of the study Please send extended abstracts (of 500 words) to Birgit Pepin at birgit.pepin at hist.no, or Keith Jones at D.K.Jones at soton.ac.uk by 1rst January 2014. Submissions will be considered by the SI editors by 31rst January 2014, and full papers will be due 30th April 2014. The Special Issue is likely to be published by the end of 2014. We look forward to your contributions! Birgit Pepin & Keith Jones REPLY goes to sender only REPLY ALL goes to list members This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. 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