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ACME/The Post-14 Mathematics Inquiry Workshop
Post-14 Mathematics Education:
Towards a Baccalaureate?
Profile of Speakers
Roger Brown | Catherine Dufosse |
Professor Gabrielle Kaiser | Mike Tomlinson
| Professor Alison Wolf
Roger Brown
Roger Brown is the Head of Research Support and Development for the International
Baccalaureate Research Unit, located within the Department of Education at
the University of Bath. He commenced his teaching career in Melbourne, Australia,
where he taught mathematics in both government and independent schools. Roger
moved from Melbourne to take up the role of Subject Area Manager for Mathematics
at the International Baccalaureate Curriculum and Assessment Unit in Cardiff,
before moving to the Research Unit in Bath. He has presented at many national
and international conferences on the uses of, and assessment with, hand held
technologies in mathematics. Roger's interests also lie in the issues related
to the socio-cultural aspects of assessment in national and international
education systems.
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Catherine Dufossé
Catherine Dufossé has been a teacher in Senior High School in Marseille
since 1978. She joined the Commission de Réflexion sur l'Enseignement
des Mathématiques (CREM) in 2001. CREM, directed by Professor Jean-Pierre
Kahane, was set up by the Ministry of Education in 1999 and comprises
representatives from across the educational community. It is charged with
comprehensively considering the long-term landscape of mathematics education
from primary school to university. Following her studies in mathematics at
the University Paris VII, she won a scholarship from the French Foreign Office
to study the teaching of mathematics in Japan, comparing the Japanese and
French systems (she was based in Tokyo between 1976 and 1978). Catherine
worked with university mathematicians and experts in mathematics education,
writing texts and reports for the French Ministry of Education. She has worked
actively in the French Association of Mathematics Teachers, and became President
of the Association in 1999-2000.
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Gabriele Kaiser
Gabriele Kaiser is currently a professor in mathematics education at the
University of Hamburg, Germany. Her areas of research include modelling and
real world examples; international comparisons; gender; and culture in
mathematics education. She holds a masters degree as a teacher of mathematics
and humanities. She completed her doctorate in mathematics education on the
theory and practice of teaching applications and modelling. Her postdoctoral
qualification was devoted to a comparison of teaching and learning mathematics
in English and German classrooms.
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Mike Tomlinson
Mike Tomlinson is Chair of the working group set up by the Government to
take forward the 14-19 agenda. He is also Chair of the Learning Trust and
part-time Director of Planet Science, formally Science Year. He recently
led the inquiry into the A level grading issues of 2002 and will monitor
the awarding process for 2003. Mike Tomlinson held various teaching posts
between 1965 and 1977 and was appointed HMI in 1978. On the creation of OFSTED
in 1992 he became Deputy Director of Inspection and on 1 December 2000 he
took up the post of HM Chief Inspector of schools, which he held until retiring
on 30 April 2002.
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Alison Wolf
Alison Wolf is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education. She
is also the Executive Director of the International Centre for Research on
Assessment and Programme Director in the DfES-funded Centre for the Economics
of Education, focusing on the demand for skills. She is a THES columnist
and a member of the Editorial Board of Assessment in Education. Along with
Celia Hoyles, Susie Molyneux-Hodgson and Phillip Kent, she recently co-authored
the Mathematical Skills in the Workplace report which examined changing
demands for intermediate maths skills in a range of sectors. Recent publications
include Does Education Matter? Myths about education and economic growth
(Penguin 2002) and, edited with Clare Tikly, The Maths We Need Now: demands,
deficits and remedies (Bedford Way Papers, Institute of Education).
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