Mathematics teacher educator design and implementation of instructional activities and practices for preservice teachers learning from experience
28 October - 25 November 2024
Biography
Signe Kastberg is a mathematics teacher educator at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA where she is a full professor (2017- present) and is the Mary Endres Endowed Chair of Elementary Education (2022 – present). At Purdue University she teaches courses in mathematics education at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In addition, she supervises graduate students in mathematics education and serves as a faculty mentor. Her interest is in mathematics teacher educator knowledge and development with a focus on instructional activity design and practices. She has published research reports in several high-ranking journals such as Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education; Journal of Mathematical Behavior; and For Learning of Mathematics. In addition, she has contributed chapters to The International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education; Designing, Conducting, and Publishing Quality Research in Mathematics Education; and Interdisciplinarity and Mathematics Education. Kastberg is an internationally respected scholar as evidenced by her selection as topic study group leader for the International Congress of Mathematics Education (ICME) to be held in Sydney Australia in 2024. Her expertise in mathematics teacher educator practices and pedagogy has been recognized in the United States as illustrated by her selection for Excellence in Teaching in Mathematics Teacher Education Award by the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators in 2018. This award recognizes a mathematics teacher educator for her unique contribution in teaching that has made a “significant contribution to the pedagogy of mathematics teacher education” (https://amte.net/about/awards).
Research Summary
Dr. Kastberg will work with Dr. Helliwell on their research collaboration focused on how mathematics teacher educators design and implement instructional activities and practices. Kastberg and Helliwell will build from their joint leadership of a topic study group focused on “Knowledge and practice of mathematics teacher educators” at the 15th International Congress of Mathematics Education (ICME-15), in Sydney in July 2024.
Dr. Kastberg will present lectures for a variety of audiences during her visit: these lectures will be listed on our Events page in due course.
Intimate Scholarship: Being, Knowing, and Ethics
Wednesday 6th November, 14:00-15:00
Room 3.13, School of Education
Key Audience: Open seminar (Bristol Conversations in Education)
This talk will focus on methods and representations of becoming and learning from teaching using intimate scholarship drawing from a study of teacher educator certainty in professional change conducted with Dr. Helliwell of University of Bristol. This evidence will support a claim that practitioners who use intimate scholarship view knowing as dynamic and situated and choose to represent knowing through self-exploration.
Improving HE Mathematics Teaching Through Self-Based Inquiry
Monday 11th November, 16:00-17:00
Room 2.04, Fry Building
Key Audience: Institute for Learning and Teaching in Mathematics (maths education seminar series)
In this talk I draw on narratives and scholarly inquiry conducted by and with mathematics professors focused on improving mathematics teaching to highlight ways to conduct self-based study of HE mathematics teaching. We begin with examples from the long history of mathematicians as pedagogical leaders in HE mathematics teaching. We then build from these examples toward the use of self-based inquiry in HE mathematics teaching including methods used in such inquiry. We conclude with the generating of questions about HE mathematics teaching that can be addressed through self-based inquiry.
Navigating the Self and Engaging with Others in Constructing Visions of Quality in Mathematics Education Research
Wednesday 13th November, 15:00-16:30
Room 3.13, School of Education
Key Audience: Graduate Students and Mathematics Education Research Network (MERN)
Producing quality mathematics education research involves two factors often left unexamined: navigating the self and engaging with others. In this talk Dr. Kastberg will share examples of managing evolving perspectives of self in the context of the quest for knowledge.
Exploring and Defining Relational Practice
Friday 22nd November, 11:00-12:30
Room 2.26, School of Education
Key Audience: School of Education (Research Centre for Teaching, Learning and Curriculum (TLC)
Relationships have been identified as foundational in professional education, yet what is meant by relationship is often left to the practitioner to imagine and define. Definitions for relational teacher education and characteristics of this construct will be illustrated using examples from Dr. Kastberg’s practice and research. Relational teacher education is presented as lens for teacher educators seeking to improve practice.
You can contact Professor Kastberg's host Dr. Helliwell for more information.
