Network staff
Dr Mark Boylan
Senior lecturer, BSc Hons, PGCE, PhD
Phone 0114 225 6012
E-mail m.s.boylan@shu.ac.uk
Mark Boylan is a senior lecturer in mathematics education. He is an active researcher of his own practice focusing on the development of learning communities and peer learning with ITT students. Particular areas of interest are issues of social justice in mathematics teacher education, and emotionality and teaching, and theorising teacher professional development. He is co-leader of the teacher education research and scholarship group.
His doctoral research was a school based project focusing on the experience of school mathematics and teacher questioning during which he developed a critique of community of practice theory. He is a member of the Critical Mathematics Education Group and is a reviewer for Teacher and Teacher Education.
Recent publications
Boylan, M. (2010) Ecologies of participation in school classrooms, Teaching and Teacher Education, 26(1) 61-70
Boylan, M. (2009) Engaging with issues of emotionality in mathematics teacher education for social justice, Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 12 (427-443)
Boylan, M. and Povey, H. (2009). Telling stories about mathematics. In L. Black, H. Mendick, and Y. Solomon (Eds.), Mathematical relationships: Identities and participation. London: Routledge.
Boylan. M. and Povey, H. (2009). Promoting equality in the mathematics classroom. In M. Cole (Ed). Promoting equality in schools: The later years. London: Continuum.
Boylan, Mark (2007) Teacher Questioning in communities of political practice in Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal no. 21 (September 2007) Special issue on social justice, part 2
Boylan (2005) School classrooms: Communities of Practice or Ecologies of Practices? Paper Presented at 'First Socio-Cultural Theory in Educational Research' September 2005 Manchester University UK.
Boylan Mark (2004) Learner's perspectives on discussion and questioning practices in mathematics classrooms: challenges for democratic practice in the development of learning communities. Paper presented at ESRC Seminar 'Creating Learning Communities: Learners Perspectives' Thursday 18 November 2004, Newcastle University, UK
Boylan, Mark (2004) Questioning (in) school mathematics: Lifeworlds and Ecologies of Practice. Sheffield Hallam University. PhD: March 2004
Research and consultancy projects
- NCETM Pathfinder Dynamic Geometry Collaborative Professional Development Project 2007
- Evaluation of Mathematics Development Programme Pilots for the TDA 2007-2009
- Study of Mathematics Subject Enhancement for the TDA 2008
- Study of NCETM impact 2009-2010
- 'Asking questions to deepen your practice' CPD course for Creative Partnerships/CAPE UK
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