Professor Laurinda Brown
Current positions
Honorary Reader in Mathematics Teacher Education
School of Education
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Research interests
Mathematics education, effective mathematics teaching and learning, complex decision-making and intuition, embodied cognition and ways of knowing.
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.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
TDA support for ICT in Initial Teacher Training
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project has led to developments across the PGCE course in the use of ICT.Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/02/2012 to 01/02/2013
DEVELOPING ALGEBRAIC ACTIVITY IN A COMMUNITY OF INQUIRERS
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/10/1999 to 01/10/2000
Thesis supervisions
The development of a discursive psychology approach to investigate the participation of students with English as an additional language (EAL) in writing and solving arithmetic word problems with peers
Supervisors
The development of a discursive psychology approach to investigate the participation of students with English as an additional language (EAL) in writing and solving arithmetic word problems with peers
Supervisors
Metacommunication and Listening: An enactivity study of patterns of communication in classrooms and teacher meetings in one secondary mathematics department in the UK
Supervisors
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
Attending to Experience
Supervisors
Students’ perceptions of assessment on one Mathematics Enhancement Course
Supervisors
Connecting theories
Supervisors
An Enactivist Study into the Practices of a Facilitator in Synchronous Online Professional Development of Teachers of Mathematics
Supervisors
Re-observing the emergence of mathematics learning through conversations in a classroom from an enactivist perspective
Supervisors
Foregrounding the voices of students
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/04/2012Developing "deliberate analysis" for learning mathematics and for mathematics teacher education: how the enactive approach to cognition frames reflection
Educational Studies in Mathematics
Developing Expertise: How Enactivism Re-frames Mathematics Teacher Development
ZDM
The Economy
Teaching Secondary Mathematics as if the Planet Matters
On doing the same problem – first lessons and relentless consistency
Task Design in Mathematics Education: Proceedings of ICMI Study 22
Hearing Silence: Learning to teach mathematics
Hearing Silence: Learning to teach mathematics
Recent publications
14/04/2026Developing specialised ways of seeing as mathematics teacher educators
Mathematics Teacher Educator Expertise
Mapping the territory
The learning and development of mathematics teacher educators
Working with awareness as Mathematics Teacher Educators
The learning and development of mathematics teacher educators
Differentiation from an Advanced Standpoint
Mathematics Teacher Education and Development
Theorising theorising
International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education
