GRAVES, Barbara
Associate Professor
Telephone:
613 562 5800 2225
email:bgraves@uottawa.ca
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Bio:
Research interests and scholarly activities
Research into learning informed by sociocultural theory, embodied cognition, and complexity science; Mathematical reasoning in problem-solving; Mathematics teaching and learning; Classroom discourse processes
Current Projects
• Teachers' Immersion in Mathematical Inquiry ( with Dr. Christine Suurtamm)
• Curriculum Implementation in Intermediate Mathematics (with Dr. Christine Suurtamm)
• Teaching and learning in multigrade classrooms
Research Groups
Pi Lab - Research in Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Teaching fields
Theories of mind; Research & contemporary issues in teaching and learning mathematics; Social nature of human thought ; The role of discourse in learning; Vygotsky & sociocultural theory
Chapters in Refereed Books
Zack, V., & Graves , B . (2002). M aking mathematical meaning through dialogue. In C. Kieran & A. Sfard (Eds.), Learning Discourse: Discursive approaches to research in mathematics education (pp. 229-271). Kluwer Publications.
Papers in Refereed Journals
Abasi, A., Akbari, N., & Graves , B . (2006). Discourse appropriation, and the complex issue of plagiarism: ESL students writing in graduate school. Journal of Second Language Writing , 15 (2), 102-117.
Chung, Y. G., Graves , B ., Wesche, M. & Barfurth, M. (2005). Computer-mediated communication in Korean-English chat rooms : Tandem learning in a n International Languages Program. Canadian Modern Language Review, 62 (1), 49-86.
Donin, J. D., & Graves B., Goyette, E. (2004). Second-language text comprehension: Processing within a multi-layered system. Canadian Modern Language Review, 61 (1), 53-76.
Graves B., (2003). Second-language learning and instruction. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, vol. 3 , 1029-1032.
Graves , B. , (2001). Literary expertise and analogical reasoning: Building global themes. Empirical studies of the arts, 19 (1), 47-63.
Maguire, M. H., & Graves , B. (2001). Speaking personalities in primary school children's L2 writing. TESOL Quarterly, 35 (4), 561-593.
Zack, V., & Graves , B. (2001). Making mathematical meaning through dialogue: "Once you think of it, the z minus three seems pretty weird." Educational Studies in Mathematics, 46 (1-3), 229-271.
Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings
Graves , B . & Suurtamm, C. (2006). Beginning teachers in mathematical inquiry: Emerging collectives. In Novotná, J., Moraová, H., Krátká, M. & Stehlíková, N. (Eds.). Proceedings 30 th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education , Vol. 1, p. 257. Prague , Czech Republic
Suurtamm, C. & Graves, B . (2006). Immersion in mathematical inquiry: The experiences of beginning teachers. In Novotná, J., Moraová, H., Krátká, M. & Stehlíková, N. (Eds.). Proceedings 30 th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education , Vol. 1, p. 340. Prague , Czech Republic
Graves , B . (2005). Discussion response to Anna Sfard's Metaphor of Object. In Proceedings of the symposium Designing Mathematical Thinking Tools, London , ON , June 2005
Graves B ., Suurtamm, C. & Benton, N. (2005) Learning and teaching mathematics in communities of inquiry: Is it enough to transform practice? In on-line Proceedings of The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI Study 15) Brazil