On Saturday, November 2nd, we hosted a vibrant one-day conference in partnership with the British Society for Research on Learning Mathematics (BSRLM). The event brought together 85 attendees, including more than a dozen local colleagues and no fewer than seven presentations contributions from our Southampton Education School (SES) colleagues. The conference also provided valuable opportunities…
A new paper by Dr Wonyong Park, Prof Insook Lim and Prof Jinwoong Song has been published. In the article ” Exploring the intersection of disasters and science education with preservice science teachers through a disaster case study”, they looked at a public health (chemical) disaster in South Korea to explore the possibility of teaching…
Dr Andri Christodoulou along with Mart Doms from Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Belgium presented part of the work done for the EU-funded H2020 COSMOS project at the recent ECER 2024 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus. The research talk titled ‘How socioscientific inquiry-based learning (SSIBL) in communities of practice fosters students’ science…
During 1-5th July 2024, Dr Andri Christodoulou attended ERIDOB 2024, presenting her current work on the COSMOS project. Andri along with other partners from the COSMOS project, had the opportunity to present and share some of the on-going work and initial findings from the COSMOS project as part of a symposium at the 14th conference of…
PhD student Jingwen Song attended the Conference for Research in Early Childhood Education (CRECE) 2024 at The Education University of Hong Kong, China from 1-3 June, and presented her project on climate change education in early childhood. Her presentation focused on the design of the teacher professional development programme, how the programme activities can help…
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…