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Dr Vesife Hatisaru

Vesife is a Lecturer in secondary mathematics education at the School of Education.

Current teaching

  • EMT6000 Curriculum Perspectives: Chance and Data
  • MPE 6262 Transition Mathematics: Geometric Thinking
  • MPE 6263 Transition Mathematics: Early Algebraic Thinking
  • MSE 6101 Teaching Lower Secondary Mathematics

Background

Vesife has been leading Mathematics Education research in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University since January 2021. She was educated at Dicle, Baskent and Middle East Technical Universities, where she completed a Bachelor, Masters, and eventually PhD degrees, all three are in Mathematics Education. After ten years teaching mathematics in secondary comprehensive schools in Mardin and Ankara, she became a teacher educator and researcher.

Vesife has worked on the mathematics pedagogy aspects of teacher education at Hacettepe and Baskent Universities in Turkey, and then at the University of Tasmania in Tasmania, where she has also completed her Post Doctoral Training in Mathematics Education.

Vesife’s main research themes include mathematical knowledge for teaching and its impact on student learning outcomes, with a specific focus on algebra, and individuals’ perceptions of mathematics and its teaching and learning.

Vesife collaborates mathematics education researchers both nationally and internationally. She supervises higher degree by research students in the mentioned and other related areas.

Professional associations

  • 2021 - Mathematical Views Group, MAVI (Board member)
  • 2021 - Mathematical Association, MA (Member)
  • 2020 - Mathematical Associations Tasmania, MAT (Executive)
  • 2020 - British Society for Research into Learning of Mathematics, BSRLM (Member)
  • 2017 - Mathematical Views Group, MAVI (Member)
  • 2017 - 2018 Association for Turkish Women in Maths (Member)
  • 2016 - 2017 Turkish Mathematics Education Association (Member)
  • 2011 - Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, MERGA (Member)

Awards and recognition

National and international research awards

  • 2022 - Edith Cowan University, School of Education Research Awards (Teacher Education).
  • 2022 - Edith Cowan University, Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Awards in the Inspirational Individual Category: Courage, Nominee.
  • 2021 - University of Tasmania, Vice Chancellor Early Career Research Award.

Research areas and interests

  • Mathematics education
  • Teacher pedagogical content knowledge
  • Teacher beliefs
  • Teaching practices
  • Student affective outcomes
  • Drawing on education
  • Images of mathematics and mathematicians
  • Problem-based learning
  • STEM education
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