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 »
Category Archives: Education research
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 »
The iniquity of gap filling in mathematics teaching
What are we reducing mathematics teaching to? What are we reducing the experience of learning mathematics to? The overemphasis on testing and the impact of ‘knowledge’ evangelism is reducing mathematics teaching… Read more »
Cultural practices, political economy and social psychology in the similarity of practices in schools
I have been interested in cultural practices in teaching for a few years. So I was interested how this resonated with Steven Puttick’s recent article in School Leadership and Management , describing… Read more »
Returning to the cave: practicing teachers doing part-time research degrees
Plato’s cave as an analogy of the experience of doing a part-time research degree, while working as a teacher