Publications Archive - IMS Learning

Russell Tytler video interview

Developing diagrams and visual representations can lead to huge improvements in student performance and engagement in STEM subjects. Deakin researchers are taking their findings to schools across the country.

Use Of Visual Representations In Astronomy Education: Issues, Affordances And Research Perspectives

ESERA conference, Bologna, Italy, 26 to 30 August 2019

Our paper “Use Of Visual Representations In Astronomy Education: Issues, Affordances And Research Perspectives” has been accepted for presentation at the 2019 ESERA Conference.

2019 Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) Conference

42nd MERGA Conference 2019, Perth, 30 June – 4 July 2019

“Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science (IMS) Learning in the Primary School”

The Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science (IMS) project* (https://imslearning.org/) is developing and investigating an approach to mathematics and science learning that implements learning sequences in which students’ invention and transformation of representational systems in the two subjects can support deeper learning in each. The guided inquiry pedagogy involves students in epistemic practices that approximate those in the discipline, such that concepts that sit at the intersection of the two disciplines (variation, sampling, symmetry, spatial reasoning) are approached from the distinct perspectives of each.

The challenge of STEM

Russell Tytler talks to Education Matters about some of the recent innovations in the teaching and learning of STEM in the primary school years.

2019 Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) Paper

50th annual ASERA Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand 2-5 July, 2019

Enriching Maths and Science Learning Through an Interdisciplinary Approach

There has been increasing interest in interdisciplinary as an approach to more deeply engage students, especially as part of advocacy of integrated STEM approaches. However, there are concerns that this integration can do violence to the distinctive ways of knowing and practising represented by the disciplines.