Nordic summer course 2010 for doctoral students in mathematics education

This year’s summer course in mathematics education is the seventh course organised by Barbro Grevholm at the Faculty of Engineering and Science. The six earlier courses were part of the Nordic Graduate school in Mathematics Education, which was situated at UiA during 2004-2009. The 2010 course was supported by 400000 NOK from NordForsk based on a separate application. The group leaders in this course were international experts in research of mathematics education: Professors Fulvia Furinghetti, Italy, Willi Dörfler, Austria, Birgit Pepin, Norway and Jeppe Skott, Sweden.

The course consists of 35 participants, which is a new all time high number of participants. Students come from all of the five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and additionally two from Spain and one from Slovakia.

After an intense course week at Dømmesmoen in Grimstad the students will now carry on for two months on their own with the studies and fulfill their examination by writing an essay on their own research study. The essay will be evaluated by the group leaders in cooperation with the course leader. The course will finish on August 1.

An appreciated guest lecturer, Professor Jo Boaler from Sussex University in England visited the course and gave a lecture on “Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: International examples of success”. The lecture was followed by a workshop led by Jo Boaler, where students were exploring how their own studies will manage to bridge this gap.

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