SEEN meeting 26th June 2024, hosted at the Hawthorns Centre, at Southampton Common Safety and Ecology at Southampton Common Dawn Bannatyne, Head Ranger, Southampton Common, A Short walk on Southampton Common and talk about management issues; plus an overview of their work and how the Rangers can offer advice to schools about improving grounds for…
Dr Andri Christodoulou took part in John Hansard’s Community Takeover launch on Saturday 8th June. With Dr Jenny Baverstock from the School of Biological Sciences, they participated in the Growing Food in Urban Environments drop-in session organised by the Gallery. The drop-in session was an opportunity for the public to learn more about the Wild…
Dr Athina Thoma attended and presented her work at the 5th Conference of the International Network for Didactic Research in University Mathematics (INDRUM). This is a European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (ERME) topic conference. The conference is organised in working groups and Athina together with Olov Viirman (Uppsala University) were the leaders of one of…
From 22nd – 24th May Dr Andri Christodoulou with Sam Weston and Prof Marcus Grace from the Maths & Science Education Research Centre at the Southampton Education School had the pleasure of hosting the fourth consortium meeting for the H2020-funded COSMOS project. In total, we had 20 participants across 7 countries and 13 partner institutions…
Professor Christian Bokhove presented his collaborative work with SEdS alumnus Dr Zhenzhen Miao and Professor David Reynolds on Master Mathematics teachers in Chinese primary schools. He presented (1) the quality and characteristics of master mathematics teachers’ teaching, (2) the quality of mathematics learning they nurture with their students in affective, metacognitive and cognitive dimensions, and…
Members from the Mathematics and Science Education (MaSE) Research Centre from Southampton Education School (Charis Voutsina, Ros Hyde and Athina Thoma) collaborated with colleagues from the School of Mathematical Sciences to deliver engaging mathematics outreach activities as part of the Science and Engineering Day. These outreach activities were: Number Detectives! Find numbers hiding in plain…
Expanding the previously successful Numbers in Everyday Life project, we explore the embeddedness and transferability of the ‘Written Numbers in Everyday Life’ resources within family populations of diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in two different national contexts: England and Jamaica. Research collaborators: Dr Charis Voutsina (PI), University of Southampton, UK Dr Lois George (Co-I), The University of The West Indies,…
The COSMOS teacher conference took place in Prague during the 15-16th November 2023. The conference aimed at bringing together primary and secondary school teachers from all partner countries (Belgium, UK, The Netherlands, Israel, Portugal, Sweden) to exchange experiences of their first year of participating in the COSMOS project and to engage in mutual learning deepening their…
MaSE will be running an outdoor escape room that was co-constructed with the RSPB as part of the festival of social sciences. Available dates are November 8th, 9th, 15th, and 16th. Follow this link to the information and registration page. For more information, contact Ran Peleg (r.peleg@soton.ac.uk)
It was a pleasure for our Research Centre to host Professor Jodie Hunter from Massey University, New Zealand on 3rd October. Professor Jodie gave a presentation titled ‘Using a strengths-based approach to decolonise mathematics education’, and she shared a variety of research activity connected to culturally sustaining pedagogies for Maori and Pasifika learners of Mathematics. We…