Birgit Pepin, MSc, PGCE, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education
Phone: 0161 275 7128
E-mail: birgit.pepin@manchester.ac.uk
Main teaching interests:
Mathematics Education; Comparative and International Education; research methodology.
Main research interests:
Recent research projects and seminars have been funded by the ESRC (Mathematics textbooks; mathematics teachers' work), BERA/TLRP/ESRC (Research methodology in Comparative and International education research), and EU (Didaktik).
Her main research interests are to explore issues in the mathematics classroom internationally, in particular comparing England, France and Germany, and the methodologies used for such studies.
Beside her research projects, she has been working collaboratively with several European agencies, for example the Dutch SLO (in research projects comparing curriculum innovation in different European countries), and with the Scandinavian Mathematics Graduate School in Kristiansand (Norway), in particular on mathematics textbooks.
Selected publications:
Ongstad, S., Hudson, B., Pepin, B., Imsen, G. and Kansanen, P. (2005) 'Didaktik and/in Mathematics Education- Studying a discipline in international, comparative and communicational perspectives', Oslo, Norway: Oslo University College Press.
Pepin, B. (2005) Conceptions du métier et pratiques pédagogiques des enseignants en Angleterre, en France et en Allemagne : l'exemple des professeurs de Mathématiques', in R. Malet & E. Brisard (eds) La Modernisation de l'école en contexte. Des politiques aux pratiques en France et en Grande-Bretagne, Paris: L'Harmattan.
Pepin, B. (2004) 'Comparing notions of social justice in education across borders and cultures - Some methodological considerations', in Moreno Herrera, L. and Francia, G (eds) Educational Policies - Implications for equity, equality and equivalence, Oerebro, Sweden: University Press.
Pepin, B. and Haggarty, L. (2003) 'Mathematics textbooks and their use by teachers: a window into the education world of particular countries?, in Van den Akker, J. , Kuiper, W. and Hameyer, U. (eds) Curriculum landscapes and trends , Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Bruesling, C. and Pepin, B. (eds)(2003) 'Inclusion inside and outside schools: who is in need of what', European Educational Research Journal, Vol 2 Number 2, EERJ Special Issue.
Haggarty, L. and Pepin, B. (2002) 'An investigation of mathematics textbooks and their use in English, French and German Classrooms: who gets an opportunity to learn what?', British Educational Research Journal 28 (4).
Bruesling, C. and Pepin, B. (eds) (2002) 'Learners and Their Learning/Working Environments', European Educational Research Journal, Vol 1 Number 3, EERJ Special Issue.
Pepin, B. (2002) 'Methodological issues of cross-national comparisons: efforts to establish equivalence in a cross-national study of mathematics teachers' work in England, France and Germany' in Fries, A., Rosenmund, M. and Heller, W. (eds) Comparing Curriculum Making Processes (in the series Explorations ), Zurich: Peter Lang.
Pepin, B. (2002) 'Different cultures, different meanings, different teaching' in L.Haggarty (ed) Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Schools, London: Routledge.
Pepin, B. and Haggarty, L. (2001) 'Mathematics textbooks and their use in English, French and German classrooms: a way to understand teaching and learning cultures', Zentralblatt for the Didactics of Mathematics, 33 (5).