B Prim Ed (Rhodes), B Ed (Hons) (UCT, CPT), M Ed (Rhodes),    PhD (Rhodes)

Lise Westaway is the Head of Department for our new Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education.  Lise joined the department at the beginning of 2007. She teaches Mathematics Education and Education Studies (Curriculum, Childhood and Adolescence, Values, Assessment). Her research interests include mathematics education, particularly critical mathematics education which foregrounds human rights, social justice and active citizenship.

Research

Primary Initial Teacher Education

Primary Mathematics Education

Number Sense

Content and pedagogical knowledge required to teach mathematics

Numeracy in Early Childhood Education (0-5 years)

Teaching and learning

BEd (Honours) Primary Education specialism

MEd (Primary Education)

Publications

2019

Westaway, L., & Graven. M. (2019). Exploring Grade 3 teachers’ resistance to ‘take up progressive mathematics teaching roles. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 31, 27-36.

Westaway, L. (2019). The role of reflexivity in the emergence and expression of teachers’ identities in teaching primary school mathematics, 51(3), 481-492.

Tel: +27 46 603 8774

Email: l.westaway@ru.ac.za

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