epiSTEME-3 Conference Programme

Day 1, Monday, January 5, 2009
08:30 – 09:30 Registration  
09:30 – 10:45 Welcome and Opening Keynote address by Anita Rampal
10:45 – 11:15 Tea  
11:15 – 12:05 Review talk 1 Anna Sfard
12:10 – 13:00 Review talk 2 Chitra Natarajan
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 – 15:45 Paper presentations I (4 papers) Atkins, Padalkar; Sheffield, Pattanayak
15:45 – 16:15 Tea  
16:15 – 18:00 Paper presentations II (4 papers) Khunyakari, Ara; Gandhi, Venkateswaran
19:00 – 20:30 Dinner at Conference venue  
Day 2, Tuesday, January 6, 2009
09:30 – 10:20 Review talk 3 Farida Khan
10:25 – 11:15 Review talk 4 Kay Stables
11:15 – 11:45 Tea  
11:45 – 12:35 Review talk 5 Terezinha Nunes
12:40 – 13:30 Review talk 6 Abraham Arcavi
13:30 – 14:15 Lunch  
14:15 – 15:35 Paper presentations III (3 papers) Greer, Madnani, Naresh
15:35 – 16:00 Tea  
16:00 – 17:45 Paper presentations IV (4 papers) Hardy, Prabhu; Kharatmal, Speer
17:45 – 19:00 Village Haat (mini market fair) at HBCSE  
19:00 – 20:30 Conference Dinner at Jewel of Chembur  
Day 3, Wednesday, January 7, 2009
09:30 – 10:20 Review talk 7 Vivek Monteiro
10:20 – 10:50 Tea  
10:50 – 11:40 Review talk 8 Frank Banks
11:45 – 12:35 Review talk 9 Veena Poonacha
12:35 – 13:30 Lunch  
13:45 – 18:00 School visit / City drop + pickup  
19:00 – 20:30 Dinner at Conference venue  
Day 4, Thursday, January 8, 2009
09:30 – 10:20 Review talk 10 Eduardo Mortimer
10:25 – 11:15 Review talk 11 Shailesh Shirali
11:15 – 11:45 Tea  
11:45 – 13:15 Poster presentations (16 posters)  
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 – 15:45 Paper presentations V (4 papers) Balasubramaniam, Seo; Halai, Mehrotra
15:45 – 16:15 Tea  
16:15 – 18:00 Round Table  
18:30 – 22:00 Indian Classical Music Concert followed by Dinner at Conference venue
Day 5, Friday, January 9, 2009
09:30 – 10:50 Paper presentations VI (3 papers) Menon, Subramanian, Selvaraj
10:50 – 11:15 Tea  
11:15 – 12:35 Reports of Round Table  
12:35 – 13:30 Review and Closing  
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch  

Presentation Schedule

Day 1, Monday, January 5, 2009
09:30 – 10:45 Welcome and Opening Keynote address by Anita Rampal
11:15 - 12:05 Objectifying symbols: the uneasy journey of the Mathematical object from the world, to mind, to discourse Anna Sfard
12:10 – 13:00 Design and technology: an emergent school subject Chitra Natarajan
14:00 – 14:50 Endorsing and rejecting scientific claims: the role of evidence in scientific discourse Leslie Atkins
An indigenous approach to elementary Astronomy: how cognitive research can help Shamin Padalkar
14:55 – 15:45 The curriculum is more than textbooks and technology: project M3: mentoring Mathematical minds Linda Sheffield
Initiatives for improvement in acquisition of basic numeracy skills among children in early grades under SSA Binay Pattanayak
16:15 – 17:05 Studying Indian middle school students' attitudes towards technology Ritesh Khunyakari
Moving from an analysis of artefacts to designing artefacts: studying middle school students' ideas about design and designer Farhat Ara
17:10 – 18:00 Strategic content learning approach to promote self-regulated learning in Mathematics Haneet Gandhi
Chinthamani ragoonathachary and secularisation of time during the late nineteenth century madras presidency Venkateswaran TV
Day 2, 6th January, 2009
09.30–10:20 Social dimensions of Mathematics education Farida Khan
10:25–11:15 Learning and teaching design and technology: meeting needs, developing capability Kay Stables
11.45–12.35 People's knowledge of proportions in everyday life and in classrooms Terezinha Nunes
12.40–13.30 The languages of Mathematics Abraham arcavi
14:15 – 15:35 What is Mathematics education for? Brian Greer
Unmasking the gods: clarifying social construction theses in Mathematics education Jagdish Madnani
Interplay between school Mathematics and work place Mathematics Nirmala Naresh
16:00 – 16:50 The stem agenda in the context of initial teacher education: challenges and potential ways forward David Spendlove
Focus: women of rural communities of Tamilnadu -A Teaching-Action-Research Report Vrunda Prabhu
16:55 – 17:45 Refined concept maps for science education: a feasibility study Meena Kharatmal
Virtual manipulatives: Potential instructional hazards and possible design-based solutions William Speer
Day 3, 7th January, 2009
09:30 – 10:20 Universalization of elementary Math and Science Vivek Monterio
10:50 - 11:40 What do “good” teachers need to know? Frank Banks
11:45 – 12:35 Gender exclusion in Science Veena Poonacha
Day 4, 8th January, 2009
09.30–10:20 Discourse and learning in the Science classroom Eduardo Mortimer
10:25–11:15 First steps towards proof Shailesh Shirali
14.00–14.50 It makes sense to ask that question: a teacher looks at student questions Anita Balasubramanian
Using research on English to understand mathematical writing Byung-In Seo
14.55–15.45 Gender and mathematics education: lessons from Pakistan Anjum Halai
Evidences of learning through collaboration in design and technology tasks in Indian classrooms Swati Mehrotra
Day 5, 9th January, 2009
09.30–10.50 The learning of angles Usha Menon
Introducing fractions using share and measure interpretations: A report from classroom trials Jayasree Subramanian
Middle school students' knowledge about static and dynamic artefacts studied through their drawings and descriptions Gandhimathy Selvaraj

Date:
January 5-9, 2009
Venue:
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Mumbai, India