Janet_Ainley

Biography

Janet Ainley is the Director of the School of Education. Janet joined the School as Professor of Education in 2006. Her background is in primary teaching, but she has since had a long career at Warwick Institute of Education as a researcher and teacher educator in mathematics education. Janet has a broad range of interests in mathematics and statistics education, and in the professional practice of teachers. The central theme of Janet's research is how children and teachers make sense of the complexity of classroom activity,particularly in mathematics. This encompasses interests in the construction of meanings, in professional practice and in social and cultural issues. A specific focus of her research is on pedagogic task design, and on the development of theory in this field.  

References

Ainley,J. & Luntley, M. (2007) Towards an articulation of expert classroom practice, Teaching and Teacher Education 23(7) 1127-1138.