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Details for Ms Laurinda Brown
| Personal details | |
| Name | Ms Laurinda Brown |
| Job title | Reader in Mathematics Teacher Education |
| Department | School of Education University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/people/academicstaff/edlcb |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | M.A.(Oxon.), M.Ed.(Bristol), PGCE |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | I edited the international research journal For the Learning of Mathematics from November 2003 to November 2007 whilst continuing to teach and research. |
| Keywords | mathematics education mathematics teaching learning complex decision-making intuition cognition mathematics teaching |
| Areas of expertise | Research Interests Mathematics education, effective mathematics teaching and learning, complex decision-making and intuition, embodied cognition and ways of knowing. Biography My fourteen-year experience of teaching mathematics preceded a more varied life as, simultaneously: • co-editor of the professional journal, Mathematics Teaching (for five years) • curriculum developer and • part-time PGCE mathematics tutor. I moved to a full-time academic post at the GSoE in 1990. Research Projects • NCETM The Economy of Teaching Mathematics • Enquiring Schools: Professional Development through the whole-school implementation of thinking skills - stories of practice from three secondary schools • 'Developing algebraic activity in a 'community of inquirers'', Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project reference R000223044 |