Barbara Jaworski is Professor of Mathematics Education in the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough University, UK. She was formerly Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Agder, Norway, and before that a Reader at the University of Oxford. She has a career that spans mathematics teaching at secondary level and first-year university level, teacher education at secondary level, and teaching and supervision of doctoral students. Her research has been mainly into the development of mathematics teaching through research and through partnerships between teachers and teacher educators or didacticians at a range of levels. She was for six years Editor in Chief of the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education and, for three years, President of PME, the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
Jaworski B. (1991) Some implications of a constructivist philosophy for the teacher of mathematics. In: Furinghetti F. (ed.) Proceedings of the 15th PME International Conference 2. PUBLISHER, PLACE: 213–220.
Jaworski B. (1998) Constructivism in education. Book review of Steffe, L. P.; Gale, J.: Constructivism in Education, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995. Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik 30(2): 50–54. https://cepa.info/6523
Jaworski B. (1998) Review of Constructivism in Education edited by L. P. Steffe & J. Gale. Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik 30(2): 50–54. https://cepa.info/3855
Open peer commentary on the article “Negotiating Between Learner and Mathematics: A Conceptual Framework to Analyze Teacher Sensitivity Toward Constructivism in a Mathematics Classroom” by Philip Borg, Dave Hewitt & Ian Jones. Upshot: While I appreciate sensitive teaching approaches to students’ learning mathematics using Grid Algebra software, I am unconvinced that the approaches described are constructivist in nature. To make further progress along the lines described by the authors a clearer articulation of its constructivist foundations is needed.