Professor Alf Coles
MA(Oxon.), PGCE(Cantab.), MEd(Bristol), PhD
Current positions
Professor of Mathematics Education
School of Education
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Research interests
Teacher development; ways of working with video; listening and hearing in the mathematics classroom; early number; creativity in the classroom; metacognition.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Embedding Transformative Leadership
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
02/01/2023 to 31/07/2023
Romania Primary Mathematics Study
Principal Investigator
Description
This project aims to create a baseline report of the state of primary mathematics teaching in Romania - with a view to making recommendations for professional development.Managing organisational unit
Dates
02/01/2023 to 29/12/2023
Climate Science to Schools
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project brings together climate scientists and expert educators to pilot transdisciplinary generation of Climate Change Education (CCE) resources for schools. We will co-produce 3 sets of curriculum-aligned, age-appropriate resources,…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/10/2021 to 31/07/2022
Innovating the mathematics curriculum in times of change: towards local and global relevance
Principal Investigator
Description
World Universities Network (WUN) grantManaging organisational unit
Dates
03/02/2020 to 31/12/2022
Community, Science and Education: An interdisciplinary perspective for facing ecological crises in Mexico and South America
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
07/11/2019 to 31/03/2022
Thesis supervisions
Developing a narrative-enactivist methodology for becoming a mathematics teacher educator
Supervisors
An action research investigation into the implementation of the New National Curriculum (2014) in mathematics, in one primary school in the South West of England, and the changes and effects it provokes on children’s learning, with a focus on the operation of division.
Supervisors
Emerging mathematics - shifting awareness in a Steiner school community
Supervisors
Attending to Experience
Supervisors
The pedagogy of children's mathematical graphics
Supervisors
Students’ perceptions of assessment on one Mathematics Enhancement Course
Supervisors
Interpreting the fraction conceptual metaphors of Korean primary students
Supervisors
A meta-theory analysis of teachers’ beliefs and practice with regard to low prior attaining students in mathematics
Supervisors
Connecting theories
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
15/06/2019Ritualisation in early number work
Educational Studies in Mathematics
Re-thinking 'concrete to abstract' in Mathematics Education
Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology
Recent publications
02/02/2024Bracing ourselves
Education Sciences
Re-thinking mathematical connections with theories of difference
Research in Mathematics Education
Socio-ecological gestures of mathematics education
Educational Studies in Mathematics
Teacher Professionalism in the Global South
Teacher Professionalism in the Global South
Teachers, Resources, Assessment Practices
New ICMI Study Series
Thesis
Related people
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School of Education
Dr Tracy Helliwell
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