EDCP faculty

Research Interests

Biography

Dr. Brent Davis is Professor and David Robitaille Chair in Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia. Prior to his appointment at the UBC in August 2006, he held positions at the University of Alberta (2001-2006), York University in Toronto (1997-2001), and UBC (1994-1997). He completed his PhD in mathematics education and curriculum studies at the University of Alberta in 1994, under the supervision of Thomas E. Kieren. Through the 1980s, before undertaking graduate studies, he was a classroom teacher in northern Alberta, specializing in middle school mathematics.

Dr. Davis teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level that are developed around the educational relevance of recent developments in the cognitive and complexity sciences. A sense of the conceptual influences and emphases in these courses might be gleaned from the http://www.complexityandeducation.ca website, aspects of which were developed in courses taught by Davis.

Dr. Davis is the author of two books on pedagogy and co-author of two books on learning, teaching, and research. He has authored and co-authored many articles in the areas of mathematics learning and teaching, curriculum theory, teacher education, and action research.

Dr. Davis is also very active as an editor. He is currently Editor of For the Learning of Mathematics. He has edited or co-edited seven books of proceedings and is a former co-editor of JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education.

Selected Publications

Davis, Brent, Dennis J. Sumara, and Rebecca Luce-Kapler. (2008). Engaging Minds: Changing teaching in complex times. New York and London: Routledge.

Davis, Brent, Dennis Sumara. (2006). Complexity and education: Inquiries into learning, teaching, and research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Davis, Brent. (2004). Inventions of teaching: A genealogy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.