[Maths-Education] Maths Ed Seminar at King's 18 October

[Jeremy Hodgen]

Dear All,

The Mathematics Education Research Group at King's College London runs 
a twice-termly seminar series. The first seminar in this year's seres 
will be:

The construction of personal example spaces: a socio-cognitive 
perspective on the affordances and constraints of mathematical tasks
Dr Anne Watson, Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford
 
In this seminar I will present some active current thinking about 
improving mathematics teaching.  I shall introduce the concept of 
personal example spaces as a way to describe the organization of memory 
of past mathematical experiences, and use this to account for 
situational-specificity of learners’ engagement in mathematics. This 
view is not merely another theoretical perspective to our understanding 
of learning mathematics. I shall show how seeing teaching as organizing 
experience of examples can inform both social and cognitive 
perspectives on classroom learning.  Currently I am thinking of 
perception as a sensory response which is informed and constrained by 
social, cultural, situational and other influences.  In this seminar I 
shall offer some instances which can be used as raw material for theory 
but are also practical teaching ideas.

Date:
Tuesday 18th October 2005, 5.30  - 7.00 pm

Venue:
Room G8
Franklin Wilkins Building Annex, Waterloo Road.
The entrance to the School of Education is on Waterloo Road, just off 
Waterloo Bridge.
A map of the locality is available at:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/maa/sc.html

You are invited to stay for drinks at 7.00.

All are welcome. RSVP

Jeremy

Dr Jeremy Hodgen
Lecturer in Mathematics Education
King's College, London
Department of Education and Professional Studies
Franklin-Wilkins Building
Waterloo Bridge Wing
150 Stamford Street
London SE1 9NH

Tel: 020 7848 3102
Fax: 020 7848 3182
E-mail: jeremy.hodgen at kcl.ac.uk
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