Elena Nardi

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Dr Elena Nardi

Reader in Mathematics Education

Email:
e.nardi@uea.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 (0)1603 592631
Fax:
+44 (0)1603 593446
Office location:
EDU 1.12
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Research
Publications

 

Research Interests

Dr Elena Nardi is a Reader in Mathematics Education. Her research is in the area of mathematics education, with a particular emphasis on the psychology of mathematical learning and the teaching and learning of mathematics at the undergraduate level.  She currently contributes to the teaching and supervision of the PhD, EdD, MA, BSc, BA and PGCE programmes of the School of Education. She co-ordinates the School's group of researchers in mathematics education and is in charge of Post-Graduate Admissions.   She is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Research in Mathematics Education (till 2010) and her monograph Amongst Mathematicians: teaching and learning mathematics at university level was published by Springer in 2007. For more information on her work, CV, publications and thesis see: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m011

 

List of Publications

Major publications

NARDI E (2007) Amongst Mathematicians: Teaching and learning mathematics at university level. USA: Springer

BIZA I, NARDI E and ZACHARIADES T (2007) Using tasks to explore teacher knowledge in situation-specific contexts. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (Special Issue) 10(4-6), 301-309

NARDI E, JAWORSKI B and HEGEDUS S (2005) A spectrum of pedagogical awareness for undergraduate mathematics: from ‘tricks’ to ‘techniques’, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 36(4), 284-316

IANNONE P and NARDI E (2005) On the Pedagogical Insight of Mathematicians: ‘Interaction’ and ‘Transition from the Concrete to the Abstract’, Journal of Mathematical Behaviour, 24(2), 191-215

NARDI E (2005) ‘Beautiful Minds’ in Rich Discourses: on the employment of Discursive Approaches to Research in Mathematics Education. European Educational Research Journal 4(2), 145-154

NARDI E and STEWARD S (2003) Is Mathematics T.I.R.E.D.? A Profile of Quiet Disaffection in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom, British Educational Research Journal, 29(3), 345-367

AINLEY J, PRATT D and NARDI E (2001) Normalising: Children's Activity to Construct Meanings for Trend, Educational Studies in Mathematics, 45, p131-146.

NARDI E (2000) Mathematics Undergraduates' Responses to Semantic Abbreviations, 'Geometric' Images and Multi-Level Abstractions in Group Theory, Educational Studies in Mathematics. No 43(2). p169-189

NARDI E (2000) Zeros and Ones in Advanced Mathematics: Transcending the Intimacy of Number, For the Learning of Mathematics. No 20(3). p44-51

AINLEY J, NARDI E and PRATT D (2000) The Construction of Meaning for Trend in Active Graphing, International Journal of Computers in Mathematical Learning. No 5. p.85-114.