Rogers Hall

Professor of Mathematics Education, Chair

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1990

Research Area

Mathematics education; learning in/out of school; comparative studies of representational practice in mathematics, science, and technology; project-based pedagogy and classroom environments; interactional studies of language, action (including gesture), and inscription.

Short Biography

Rogers Hall is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University. His research interests include: the learning and teaching of mathematics, both as a school topic and as a resource for modeling and inference in scientific inquiry; studies of learning in and out of school; comparative studies of mathematical activity in school and work settings, and (most generally) the organization and development of representational practices in technical and scientific work.

Selected publications include "How does cognition get distributed? Case studies of making concepts general in technical and scientific work" (In M. Banich & D. Caccamise (Eds.), Generalization of knowledge: Multidisciplinary perspectives, Psychology Press, 2010, with K. Wieckert and K. Wright), "Conceptual learning" (In T. Good (Ed.), 21st century education: A reference handbook, 2008, Sage, with J. Greeno), "Interactive and historical processes of distributing statistical concepts through work organization" (Mind, Culture, and Activity, 14 (1&2), 103-127, 2007, with K. Wright and K. Wieckert), and "Reconstructing the learning sciences" Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14(1), 139-155, 2005.

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Math and Science Education

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