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Tansy Hardy
Senior lecturer, BA (Hons), PGCE, MA
Phone 0114 225 5019
E-mail t.hardy@shu.ac.uk
Tansy is a lecturer in mathematics education and leads Masters courses in learning and teaching in the professional development programme. She specialises in practitioner research with an interest in the nature of professional development for teachers and social and political aspects of learning. She supervises and examines dissertations using narrative and other innovative approaches and is interested in supporting more unusual forms of reporting on research activities.
She is actively involved in national and international mathematics education research communities and is the joint coordinator of the Critical Mathematics Education Group.
She is an invited contributor to ESCR funded seminar series 'Mathematical Relationships: Identities and Participation' (May 2007); to the Symposium on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) 'Reflecting and Shaping the World of Mathematics Education' (Rome, March 2008)and to the international collaboration between Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix, Sheffield Hallam University, Manchester Metropolitan University and Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique examining the understanding of practitioners' use of theoretical tools and concepts to re-examine their/our practice (September 2006 and April 2007).
She reviews extensively for national and international mathematics education research journals and for research conferences. In particular she has reviewed for Research in Mathematics Education Annual publication 1999-2006; Psychology of Mathematics Education conference and proceedings 1998-2007; Mathematics Education Research Journal 2003 (Australasia); Mathematics, Education and Society Conferences; and for several edited education research books for Kluwer, Information Age. She has recently been appointed to the review panel for academic journal Research in Mathematics Education.
She has been awarded a Sheffield Hallam University LTA Fellowship for 09/2005-08/2008 in recognition of her work in enhancing professional learning. This award also funds further research into innovative work based assessment for the professional learning of teachers. She has gained internal funding to research the transitional experience of new post graduate students of professional development courses in education and their shifting dialogues between practice and theory 09/2006-08/2007 and also been funded to undertake a development project in using video extracts of mathematics classroom practice to enhance students' reflective practice in developing their future professional identity and practices as teachers of mathematics.
Recent research publications
2007 'Participation and performance: Keys to confident learning in mathematics? Research in Mathematics Education, Vol 9, (eds. Bills, L, Hodgen, J, Povey, H.), British Society for Research into the Learning of Mathematics (BSRLM), forthcoming 2007
2004 'There's no hiding place: Using Foucault's notion of normalisation to examine the effects of teachers' and children's practices in a mathematics lesson', in Margaret Walshaw (ed.) Mathematics Education within the Postmodern, pp113-120 Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
2004 'What does it mean to research social and cultural contexts in mathematics education?' in Robyn Zevenbergen and Paola Valero (eds.), Researching the socio-political dimensions of mathematics education. Issues of power in theory and methodology, pp85-104 Netherlands, Kluwer (with Tony Cotton)
Published conference proceedings
2007 Research Methodology Symposium 'Researching Learners' relationships to Learning: The Trouble with Theoretical perspectives' at BERA Conference 2007 , Institute of Education, London including a paper 'Researching Relationships to Mathematics Learning: the trouble with confidence'
2003, 'A re-examination of reflective practice as a viable frame for mathematics teacher education', presentation (with Una Hanley) at British Educational Research Association Conference 2003, Edinburgh, published on education line (and in Paola Valero and Ole Skovsmose (Eds) Proceedings of 3rd International Mathematics Education and Society Conference Proceedings pp356-365, The Centre for Research in Learning Mathematics, The Danish University of Education, Aalborg, Denmark. April 2002.
Research conference presentations
March 2008 forthcoming paper as Invited contributor to the Symposium on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) 'Reflecting and Shaping the World of Mathematics Education' (Rome, 5- 8 March 2008)
July 2006 Discussion Group: Troubling learners' and teachers' relationships with mathematics: Theoretical perspectives on researching learning mathematics Una Hanley, Manchester Metropolitan University, Tansy Hardy, Sheffield Hallam University, Heather Mendick, London Metropolitan University, Hilary Povey, Sheffield Hallam University, Margaret Walshaw, Massey University at 30th conference of the international organisation for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Prague. Abstract in Conference Proceedings and full report in Newsletter
July 2005 Tony Brown, Tony Cotton, Tansy Hardy, Helen Toft, Symposium: Mathematics Education (Research) and/as Performance at The Fourth International Conference for Mathematics Education and Society, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. July 2005.
July 2003 Honolulu, The role of mathematics education in social exclusion. Reviewing the interface between psychological and sociological research paradigms. With Peter Gates, University of Nottingham, UK, Stephen Lerman, South Bank University, UK, Robyn Zevenbergen, Griffith University, Australia, Tansy Hardy, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, Mike Askew, Kings College London, UK, 27th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Honolulu: Discussion group proposal in proceedings and full report in Newsletter
July 2002, Norwich,Tansy Hardy, Hilary Povey 'Researching the social and political in mathematics Education from a critical perspective: Dilemmas for researchers' 26th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Discussion group proposal in proceedings and full report in Newsletter
Publications in preparation
2008 'The problem with primary mathematics teaching: teachers' relation to mathematics as professional identity work' (under review) in Mathematical Relationships: identities and participation, Eds: Laura Black, Heather Mendick and Yvette Solomon, Palgrave (under review).
2008 'Lacking confidence in confidence' (under review) in Brown, A.M. (ed.) The Psychology of Mathematics Education: A Psychoanalytic Displacement, Sense Publications (forthcoming).
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