Cybernetic decision making in the classroom
I spent the last eight years observing teachers in mathematics classrooms, trying to work out the relationship between their thought and action, and before that I spent eight years in… Read more »
Category: Education research
Apparently there are too many PhD students
There have been some conversations in the University, I understand, that there are too many graduate students competing for too few academic jobs. There was some discussion also that we… Read more »
Memory and emotion
In my research into teachers’ beliefs, I often to return the idea of episodic memory which Nespor (1987) takes from Abelson’s (1979) paper on the differences between knowledge and beliefs… Read more »
Multiplication – the privilege of mathematical thinking
I love John Mason. It is always a pleasure to listen to him as he takes you with him through his exploration of mathematical thinking and learning: “sit there and… Read more »
The heritability of intelligence
This essay examines the claim that intelligence is heritable as evidenced by twin studies and genome-wide association studies. I look to political economy, society and culture to truly understand the psychosocial and cultural aspects of intelligence.
A clarification of the meaning of ‘self-efficacy’
This post is a response the Andrew Davis’s healthy scepticism about the concept of self-efficacy. This was in response to a recent post: http://stevenwatson.co.uk/2017/06/recent-research-in-cultural-differences-in-the-development-of-mathematics-self-efficacy/ So what I intend to do… Read more »
Recent research in cultural differences in the development of mathematics self-efficacy
A review of recent research in mathematics performance and mathematics self-efficacy.
This changes everything
The neoliberal consensus is broken, we need to start to think about what our education system might look like in the future
Upon the rejection of a research article, nightmare and hope
I have a number of research strands going on at the moment. There is my research into mathematics teachers’ professional development – this goes back to my interests as a… Read more »
Malcolm Swan – a few memories about my PhD supervisor
Malcolm was a kind-hearted supervisor. His real passion was designing mathematical tasks. I was lucky enough to become his PhD student at the Shell Centre in the University of Nottingham… Read more »