[Maths-Education] Maths Ed Seminar at King's 18 October
Jeremy Hodgen
jeremy.hodgen at kcl.ac.uk
Tue Sep 27 11:06:43 BST 2005
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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