Associate Professor Zain Davis
Associate Professor
Room 3.44, 6 Neville Alexander Building, Lover's Walk
Steam Convener
Mathematics Education
Interests
- Computational analyses of mathematics teaching and learning, teaching/learning texts, mathematics curricula (primary and secondary)
- Cognitive scientific analyses of pedagogy and learning concerned with the reproduction of school mathematics (primary and secondary)
- Sociological analyses of pedagogic practices concerned with mathematics teaching/learning and texts (primary and secondary)
- Psychoanalytic analyses of pedagogic relations and texts concerned with mathematics teaching/learning (primary and secondary)
- Philosophical interrogation of educational practices concerned with mathematics teaching/learning (primary and secondary)
- Semiotic analyses of texts concerned with mathematics teaching/learning (primary and secondary)
- Mathematics education curriculum/policy analyses (primary and secondary)
- Experimental research on the learning of mathematics (primary and secondary)
- Critical interrogations of theories of learning and teaching in mathematics education
- Linguistic analyses of the relation between language and mathematics, specifically drawing on cognitive science and biolinguistics, to understand the generation and externalisation of communicative utterances and teacher-learner-text relations in pedagogic situations concerned with the (re)production of mathematics (primary and secondary).
- Fit for purpose combinations of (1) to (10)