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Prof Elena Nardi

Elena Nardi
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Professor of Mathematics Education  E dot Nardi at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2631  
EDU/SYS 1.39 
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Biography

Elena Nardi is Professor of Mathematics Education. Her research is in a range of areas of mathematics education, with a particular emphasis on: the teaching and learning of mathematics at university level; cognitive, social and affective issues of secondary students’ engagement with mathematics; and, secondary mathematics teachers’ epistemological and pedagogical knowledge and beliefs. She currently supervises six students at doctoral level and six at Masters level. Amongst the post-graduate students that she has supervised are twelve students at doctoral level and eleven at Masters level. She is director of the MA in Mathematics Education and coordinator of its main modules Introduction to research in mathematics education and Dissertation. She is module coordinator of the BA module Children, teachers and mathematics: Changing public perceptions of mathematics and she contributes sessions to the PhD, EdD, MA and BA programmes of the School – as well as the module The learning and teaching of mathematics run by EDU for UEA’s School of Mathematics (MTH). She is also co-director of the MSc in Mathematics with Mathematics Education, jointly run by MTH and EDU. She is EDU’s Director of Research and Chair of Research Committee, the co-ordinator of EDU’s RME Group (Research in Mathematics Education), a member of EDU’s Promotions Committee and Social Science Faculty’s ESRC Peer Review Panel. She is also a member of the ESRC Peer Review College. She is Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge journal Research in Mathematics Education, the official journal of BSRLM, the British Society for Research into the Learning of Mathematics. Her monograph Amongst Mathematicians: Teaching and Learning Mathematics at University Level was published by Springer in 2008.

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Key Research Interests

Elena Nardi’s research is in a range of areas of mathematics education, with a particular emphasis on: the teaching and learning of mathematics at university level; cognitive, social and affective issues of secondary students’ engagement with mathematics; and, secondary mathematics teachers’ epistemological and pedagogical knowledge and beliefs.
 

Publications

For a complete list of Elena Nardi’s publications see: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m011


Recent publications include:

Monograph

Nardi, E. (2008). Amongst mathematicians: Teaching and learning mathematics at university level. New York: Springer.


Journal Papers

Nardi, E., Biza, I., & Zachariades, T. (2011, on line first). ‘Warrant’ revisited: Integrating teachers’ pedagogical and epistemological considerations into Toulmin’s model for argumentation. Educational Studies in Mathematics, tbc(tbc), tbc.

González-Martín, A. S., Nardi, E., & Biza, I. (2011). Conceptually-driven and visually-rich tasks in texts and teaching practice: The case of infinite series. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 42(5), 565-589.

Biza, I., Nardi, E., & Zachariades, T. (2009). Teacher beliefs and the didactic contract on visualisation. For the Learning of Mathematics, 29(3), 31-36.

Biza, I., Nardi, E., & Zachariades, T. (2007). Using tasks to explore teacher knowledge in situation-specific contexts. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 10, 301-309.


Book chapters

Dreyfus, T., Nardi, E., & Leikin, R. (2012, in press). Forms of proof and proving. In G. Hanna & M. De Villiers (Eds.), 19th International Commission for Mathematics Instruction Study (Proof and Proving). New York: Springer.

Sriraman, B., & Nardi, E. (2012, in press). Theories, models and frameworks. In M. A. K. Clements, A. Bishop, C. Keitel, J. Kilpatrick & F. Leung (Eds.), Third International Handbook of Mathematics Education. New York: Springer.

Nardi, E. (2009). Gaining insight into teaching and learning mathematics at university level through Mason’s inner research. In S. Lerman & B. Davis (Eds.), Mathematical action and structures of noticing (pp. 111-120). NL: Sense Publishers.


Teaching Interests

Elena Nardi is director of the MA in Mathematics Education and coordinator of its main modules Introduction to Research in Mathematics Education and Dissertation. She is module coordinator of the BA module Children, teachers and mathematics: Changing public perceptions of mathematics and she contributes sessions to the PhD, EdD, MA and BA programmes of the School - as well as the module The learning and teaching of mathematics run by EDU for UEA's School of Mathematics (MTH). She is also co-director of the MSc in Mathematics with Mathematics Education, jointly run by MTH and EDU. 

For opportunities to study mathematics education at UEA please view the Research in Mathematics Education (RME) group's page on courses

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