Amongst Mathematicians: Teaching And Learning Mathematics At The University Level - Elena Nardi

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Résumé :
Amongst Mathematicians offers a unique perspective on ways in which mathematicians perceive their students' learning, the way mathematicians teach, and the way mathematicians reflect on their teaching practice. This is achieved by bringing fictional characters together into a conversation on these issues, wherein the mathematical content is based on large bodies of data. The book develops the analyses further and demonstrates the pedagogical potential that lies in collaborative, multi-laterally engaging research and action in undergraduate mathematics education, an area that desperately needs such action. It contributes to the discourse for reform and demonstrates the feasibility and potential of collaboration between mathematicians and researchers in mathematics education by engaging mathematicians as educational co-researchers. Further, it puts forth a non-deficit discourse on the pedagogy of undergraduate mathematics....

Biographie:
About the author: Elena Nardi was born in 1968. She studied mathematics (BSc) in Thessaloniki, Greece and mathematics education at Cambridge (MPhil) and Oxford (DPhil) in the UK. Her research is in various areas of mathematics education, with a particular emphasis on the psychology of mathematical learning and the teaching and learning of mathematics at the undergraduate level. She is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. She is involved with graduate supervision and with teaching mathematics education and research methods, she co-ordinates UEA's group of researchers in mathematics education and she is Joint Editor in Chief (2008-2010) of Research in Mathematics Education the new international journal of the British Society for Research into the Learning of Mathematics. Her book Amongst Mathematicians: Teaching and Learning Mathematics at University Level is due in the spring/summer of 2007 by Springer. For more information on Elena's work: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m011/...