Using fragments to uncover connections through call and response, resonance and dissonance
With Laurina Brown
Biography becoming session blurb:
Laurinda has retired as an academic mathematics educator at the University of Bristol, School of Education where she mainly supported those people becoming and being mathematics teachers and was a member of the Bristol Collaborative Writing Group. In August she gave a plenary keynote at her last Psychology of Mathematics Education conference in Alicante, Spain (her first of these annual conferences was in 1994!) entitled “Stories of observing, interviewing and researching in collaborative groups to develop mathematics teaching and learning”.
The focus in that keynote was comparing and contrasting the first three papers I ever wrote with the final three to uncover a story arc as a retrospective of my career. I am currently working on a book that will fill in the middle!! However, I have been returning to the idea of “Fragments” that was the focus of an earlier presentation in an open space and I would like to explore this idea further. I imagine the session being my telling of a fragment of a story from my working life followed by some writing and sharing followed by another fragment followed by some writing as time permits – like call and response. There will be time at the end to tell fragments of arcs of our own fragments in writing.