Melissa Gresalfi, Assistant professor, Learning Sciences

Indiana University
http://site.educ.indiana.edu/LearningSciencesHome/tabid/9574/Default.aspx

Three Expertise Keywords:
Mathematics-Learning, Positioning-theory, Situative-theory

Why Digital Media and Learning?

It is a way to support students’ meaningful, active engagement with information.

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Description of Current Work:

My research considers students’ mathematics learning in different contexts, specifically considering the kinds of dispositions that students develop towards mathematics. It’s fascinating that being considered “knowledgeable” is at least as much about how particular forms of knowledge are valued as it is about individual actions. The potential findings from these projects give me hope that the kinds of inequalities that seem to be so intrinsic to our educational system and to our society could be changed.

Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:

Gresalfi, M.S., & Cobb, P. (2006). Cultivating students’ discipline-specific dispositions as a critical goal for pedagogy and equity. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 1, 49-58. Greeno, J.G., & Gresalfi, M.S. (in press). Opportunities to learn in practice and identity. To appear in: Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn.