Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


    Colleen Vale

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Position Associate Professor in Mathematics Education
Email colleen.vale@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone +61 3 924 46390
Campus Burwood
Teaching responsibilities Colleen teaches various units concerning mathematics education in pre-service and post-graduate courses. She is an experienced supervisor of doctoral students, with eight doctoral completions. She is currently supervising four doctoral students.
Research interests Colleen's research interests are focused on improving the quality of mathematics teaching and learning and ensuring equity and social justice in mathematics education. Social constructivism and feminist theories both postmodern and critical inform her research. Colleen has used various qualitative methodologies including ethnography and collaborative practitioner research to investigate classroom culture and discourse, teaching practices including the use of digital technologies, teachers' pedagogical and content knowledge and more recently instructional leadership and reform in mathematics teaching. Throughout her career pre-service mathematics teacher education, both primary and secondary, has been an on-going and developing interest.
Current research projects Colleen recently completed an evaluation of the "Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Pilot for Low Socio-economic School Communities" a project jointly funded by DEECD and DEEWR. She is currently working on building a new project with secondary schools to further develop capacity and leadership for improving secondary mathematics learning and teaching in low socio-economic school communities. Also she is working with colleagues from other universities investigate practice- and school-based approaches to mathematics teacher education.
Awards 2008 Winner of the Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing in the Tertiary Scholarly Reference category for Goos, M., Stillman, G. & Vale, C. (2007). Teaching Secondary School Mathematics: Research and practice for the 21st century. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
1999 Victoria Teacher Credit Union: Teaching Initiatives Program Award for FUN@SUN a mathematics professional learning program for teachers of primary mathematics.
Memberships Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Mathematical Association of Victoria
Publications

(2008- 2011)
Books
Goos, M., Stillman, G., & Vale, C. (2007). Teaching Secondary School Mathematics: Research and practice for the 21st century. Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Book Chapters
Atweh, B., Vale, C., Walshaw, M. (accepted, 2012). Equity, diversity, social justice and ethics: Common concerns or divergent agendas? In B. Perry, et al. (Eds.) Research in Mathematics Education 2008-2011. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers B.V.

Vale, C. & Davies, A. (2011). Dean’s great discovery: Multiplication, division and fractions. In J. Way & J. Bobis (Eds.) Fractions: Teaching for understanding (pp. 142-149). Adelaide: AAMT. (Reprinted from Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 12 (3) 18-22.)

Vale, C. (2010). Gender mainstreaming: Maintaining attention on gender equality. In H. J. Forgasz, J. Rossi-Becker, K. Lee & O. B. Steinthorsdottir (Eds.) International Perspective on Gender in Mathematics Education (pp. 111-143). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing Inc.

Vale, C. & Julie, C. (2010). Introduction : Issues of access and equity. In C. Hoyles & J-B. Lagrange (Eds.) Mathematics Education and Technology – Rethinking the Terrain (The 17th ICMI Study, pp. 349-360). New York: Springer.

Forgasz, H., Vale, C. & Ursini, S. (2010). Access, equity and agency. In C. Hoyles & J-B. Lagrange (Eds.) Mathematics Education and Technology – Rethinking the Terrain (The 17th ICMI Study, pp. 385-404). New York: Springer.

Vale, C. & Bartholomew, H. (2008). Gender and mathematics: Theoretical frameworks and findings. In H. Forgasz et al. (Eds.) Mathematics Education Research in Australasia: 2004-2007 (pp. 271-290). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Journal Articles
Vale, C. (submitted). Equivalence and relational thinking: Opportunities for professional learning. Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom

Vale, C., Weaven, M., Davies, A., Hooley, N., Davidson, K. & Loton, L. (submitted). Growth in literacy and numeracy achievement: Evidence and explanations of a summer slowdown in low socio-economic schools. Australian Educational Researcher.

Livy, S. & Vale, C. (2011). First year pre-service teachers’ mathematical content knowledge: Methods of solution to a ratio question. Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 13(1), 22-43.

Krishnan, S., Gabb, R. & Vale, C. (2011). Learning cultures of problem-based learning teams, Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 17(2), 67-78.

Vale, C., McAndrew, A. & Krishnan, S. (2011). Connecting with the horizon: Developing teachers’ appreciation of mathematical structure. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education 14, (3), 193-212.

Vale, C., Davies, A., Hooley, N., Weaven, M., Davidson, K. & Loton, D. (2010). Leadership to improve mathematics outcomes in low SES school networks and schools. Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 12(2), 47-71.

Vale, C. (2010). Supporting out-of-field teachers of secondary mathematics, Australian Mathematics Teacher, 66(1), 17-24.

Schwarz, B., Leung, I., Buchholtz, N., Kaiser, G., Stillman, G., Brown, J., & Vale, C. (2008). Future teachers’ professional knowledge on argumentation and proof: A case study from three countries. ZDM–The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 40(5), 791 – 811.

Azisah, S. & Vale, C. (2008). Gender mainstreaming in Islamic primary schools in South Sulawesi, Indonesia: A textbook analysis. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs 42(1), 55-80.

Vale, C. (2012). Book review: Brodie, K.: Teaching Mathematical Reasoning in Secondary School Classrooms. ZDM International Reviews on Mathematics Education, 44(1).

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22nd April 2013