EDCP faculty

Research Interests

Biography

Susan Gerofsky brings experience in a number of fields to bear in an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to curriculum theory, and to mathematics education in particular. She holds degrees in languages and linguistics as well as mathematics education, and worked for twelve years in film production, eight years in adult education (including workplace and labour education), and eight years as a high school teacher with the Vancouver School Board. Dr. Gerofsky has been involved in interdisciplinary research and teaching involving mathematics education, applied linguistics, and film.

Dr. Gerofsky has studied and taught in England, Brazil and Cuba. She speaks several languages, and is an active amateur musician with Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers <http://www.tiddleycovemorris.org/> and Grist to the Mill ceilidh band <http://gttm.blogspot.com/>.

Selected Publications

Gerofsky, S., Gomez, F., Rappaport, D. & Toussaint,G. (submitted).  Spirograph patterns and circular representations of rhythm: Exploring number theory concepts through visual, tangible and audible representations. Journal of Math and Art.

Gerofsky, S., Savage, M. & MacLean, K. (forthcoming).'Being the graph': Using haptic and kinesthetic interfaces to engage students learning about functions. Proceedings of ICTMT 9 (International Conference on Technology and Mathematics Teaching 9), Metz, France, July 2009.

Gerofsky, S. (forthcoming). 'Reading graphs with the body': Can a pedagogy of gesture and movement help students notice mathematically salient features of graphs? Proceedings of Multimod 09, Toulouse, France, July 2009.

Gerofsky, S. (forthcoming). Performance mathematics and democracy. Educational Insights.

Gerofsky, S. (forthcoming). The impossibility of 'real-life' word problems (according to Bakhtin, Lacan, Zizek and Baudrillard). Discourse.

Gerofsky, S. (forthcoming). Genre, simulacra, impossible exchange, and the Real: How postmodern theory problematizes word problems. In Verschaffel, L., Greer, B., Van Dooren, M. & Mukhopadhyay, S. (Eds.), Words and worlds: Modelling verbal descriptions of situations. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. (21 pp., 8125 words).

Courses Taught

MAED314A Curriculum and instruction in secondary mathematics

MAED549 Math, language and the body

CCFI572A Advanced seminar in cross-faculty inquiry in education: Theories of media, technology, culture and learning

CCFI502 Theorizing knowing in education