Prof Marcus Grace and Dr Andri Christodoulou participated in the third Consortium meeting of the FP7-funded PARRISE project that took place between 15-17 June 2015 at Malmo University, Sweden. The aim of the project is to develop best practices of professional development programmes that promote Responsible Research and Innovation and Citizenship Education through Socio-Scientific Inquiry-based…
Douglas Quadling, an outstanding mathematician and school teacher, was one of the four inspirational drivers behind the School Mathematics Project (SMP) in the 1960s and 70s. The School Mathematics Project, which radically changed the course of mathematics teaching in Britain and more widely, had its impetus at a meeting in a Winchester garden in September…
Setting Up a Health Day for Trainee Teachers: A guide for course leaders We are delighted to let you know that the above publication which we launched at the PSHE/PHE conference, Healthy and effective learners: The contribution of Initial Teacher Education is now available (click on the image or here to access the pdf file)….
Dr Jenny Byrne, Associate Professor in Education at Southampton Education School, has secured funding and will be leading the qualitative evaluation of stage 2 ( pilot) of the HeadStart project. The HeadStart project aims: To raise young people’s aspirations and outcomes by providing them with the tools and access to activities to strengthen their resilience. Through prevention…
The proceedings of ICMT have been published, the only changes made to the “pre-print” version are some minor improvements to a few of the figures. The pagination of all the contributions remains exactly the same. The proceedings can be accessed via http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374809/
Last year Prof. Fan took part in the Battle of Ideas. Lessons from Asia: what is a world-class education? (more information). At the end there also is a shout-out to research by other colleagues from Southampton.
The International Programme Committee (IPC) of the inaugural International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development (ICMT2014) has unanimously decided that the Second International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development (ICMT-2) will be held in April 2017 in Santos – São Paulo, Brazil. The conference will be hosted by UNESP – São Paulo State…
Keith Jones has been appointed as co-editor of the Newsletter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics, the premier international organisation in mathematics education research. For information on PME, please click here The latest edition of the PME Newsletter has just been published. It is available in pdf format for download from the…
A new 18-month longitudinal research study, funded by The Leverhulme Trust is exploring the impact of an innovative health education programme, developed by the University of Southampton, on teachers’ attitudes, confidence and competence to teach and promote health and well-being in schools. The study is being led by Dr Jenny Byrne at Southampton Education School,…
The Mathematics and Science Education Research Centre is proud of its contribution to the latest national assessment of research (published Thursday 18 December 2014) that has reaffirmed the position of the University of Southampton as one of the leading research universities. In Education, 78% of the research activity and 100% of the research impact was…