Pam Vale

Pam joined the SANC project team as a postdoctoral fellow in 2017. From April 2019 she will take on the new role of Senior Researcher and VESTAS/SANC project co-ordinator.

Her main roles in the project are:

  • Development and implementation of the MICLE teacher professional development programme for Grade 4 - 7 mathematics teachers
  • VESTAS/SANC project co-ordination including the running and oversight of several after-school mathematics clubs
  • Main research project:Researching the use of measurement to teach fractions in the Intermediate Phase in collaboration with Dr Jana Visnovska (老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Queensland) and Dr José Cortina (National Pedagogic 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Mexico) and working with Prof Graven
  • Student supervision
  • General academic support of SANC postgraduate students

PHD Thesis

VALE PhD Thesis (June 2017)

Academic qualifications:

B.A. (Psychology & English), cum laude (NMMU)
B.A. (Hons) (Psychology), with distinction (Unisa)
M.Ed, with distinction (Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网)
PhD (Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网)


Publications

Pam's publications are available on her ResearchGate page

Vale, P., & Graven, M. (2018). Facilitating conceptual engagement with fractions through suspending the use of mathematical terminology. In E. Bergqvist, M. ?sterholm, C. Granberg, & L. Sumpter (Eds.), Proceesings of the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education(Vol. 4, pp. 331–338). Ume?, Sweden: PME.

Visnovska, J., Cortina, J. L., Vale, P., & Graven, M. (2018). The Role of the Story in Enabling Meaningful Mathematical Engagement in the Classroom. In J. Hunter, P. Perger, & L. Durragh (Eds.), Making waves, opening spaces (Proceedings of the 41st annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia)(pp. 717–724). Auckland, New Zealand: MERGA.

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