[Maths-Education] Re: research seminar and book launch at SHU 23 October

[Povey, Hilary]

Please find attached below details of a research seminar and book launch to be held by the Mathematics Education Research Group at SHU on Wednesday 23 October 2013,  4.30 - 6.00 pm in City Campus Owen Building, Floor 9, Room 923.
Best wishes
Hilary

Professor Hilary Povey
Mathematics Education Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus, Sheffield S1 1WB
tel +44 114 225 6017 h.povey at shu.ac.uk<mailto:h.povey at shu.ac.uk>


Do you use maths to make a jug of orange squash?
and other emerging themes in adult numeracy

Graham Griffiths (Institute of Education)
Rachel Stone (Sheffield Hallam University)
Martyn Edwards (Sheffield Hallam University)
Wednesday 23 October 2013 4.30 - 6.00 pm
Followed by a wine reception
Owen Building, Floor 9, Room 923
Tea and coffee available from 4.00 pm
This event is to celebrate the launch of the book, Teaching Adult Numeracy: Principles and Practice<http://mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335246826.html>, edited by Griffiths and Stone. This collection brings together current research and practice on teaching adult numeracy, with contributions from experienced researchers and teacher educators across England. The title of the seminar is adapted from an account in chapter one, by Helen Oughton (Bolton University), where a numeracy learner explains to her peers why she wouldn't normally bother to make orange squash by 'doing maths'.
The relationship between 'real worlds' and 'maths worlds' is one of several common themes to emerge from this collection. In the seminar we plan to identify and explore this and other themes, for example: how numeracy learners are perceived as well as the subject of numeracy itself; the self-identities of practitioners and the role of language in learning numeracy.
The event will be of interest to those working in mathematics and numeracy-related fields in a number of educational phases, including primary, secondary and post-16 settings. It is also relevant to those in other disciplines who are interested in the experiences of adults learning and the impacts of policy.

Please let Ian Chesters (I.Chesters at shu.ac.uk<mailto:I.Chesters at shu.ac.uk>) know if you are planning to attend.