Dr Jenny Houssart

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Senior Lecturer in Education
    • Foundation Degree Course Leader
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication
  • Summary:
    • Jenny Houssart is course leader of the Foundation Degree and teaches on a range of undergraduate and post-graduate courses. Her background is in primary teaching and she has also worked in initial teacher education. She is interested in approaches to curriculum planning and teaching, particularly at the primary level and particularly in mathematics.
  • Teaching:
    • Course leader: Foundation Degree in Working with Children.
      Module leader: Foundation Degree Module, Understanding Children's Mathematical Learning.
      Module Leader: Foundation Degree Module, Curriculum Development, Monitoring, Evaluation and Assessment.
      Module Leader: MA Module, Curriculum Design and Development.
      Contributes to: BEd, Mathematics Module
      Contributes to: BEd, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner module.
      Contributes to: MA, Investigating Research Workshops.
  • Research Projects:
    • Current project: Listening to Learners of Mathematics
      Recent project: Low-Attainers in Primary Mathematics
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Research interests: Primary Mathematics; Primary Curriculum and Assessment; Ethnographic Research.
      PhD student: Amelia Roberts, studying thinking skills and continuing professional development.
      EdD student: Rosemary Fitchett, studying written reports to parents and their perceived difference to learners in the primary school.
      EdD student: Roger Hutchins, studying the use of assessment for learning to promote the self-esteem and learning of children with high levels of special needs in mainstream primary schools.
  • Professional Activities:
    • Associate: National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics.
      Member: British Society for Research in to Learning Mathematics, Association of Teachers of Mathematics, Mathematical Association, British Educational Research Association.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • 'Paired Interviews in Mathematics Education', with Hilary Evens, Conference of British Society for Research in to Learning Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University, 16th June 2007.
      'The Whisperers and the Maths Fairy', Day Conference for MA Students, University of East Anglia, 17th March 2007.
      'Unofficial talk in Mathematics Classrooms', Cambridge Mathematics Colloquia, 29th January 2007.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Main interest is primary education in England, some knowledge of primary mathematics and curriculum design and development internationally.
  • Languages Spoken:
    • English and French (basic)
  • Languages Written:
    • English and French (basic)
Dr Jenny Houssart

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  • Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Houssart, J. and Mason, J. (2009) Listening Counts: Listening to Young Learners of Mathematics. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books.
  • Houssart, J. and Sams, C. (2008) 'Developing mathematical reasoning through games of strategy played against the computer', The International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education 15(2),
  • Houssart, J. (2007) 'They don't use their brains what a pity: school mathematics through the eyes of the older generation', Research in Mathematics Education 9, 47-63.
  • Houssart, J. (2007) 'Investigating variability in classroom performance amongst children exhibiting difficulties with early arithmetic', Educational and Child Psychology 24(2), 83-97.
  • Watson, A., Houssart, J. and Roaf, C. (eds) (2005) Supporting Mathematical Thinking. London: David Fulton Publishers/NASEN.
  • Evens, H. and Houssart, J. (2004) 'Categorising Pupil's Written Answers to A Mathematics Test Question: 'I know but I can't explain'', Educational Research 46(3), 269-282.
  • Houssart, J. (2004) Low-Attainers in Primary Mathematics: The Whisperers and the Maths Fairy. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Houssart, J. and Evens, H. (2003) 'Approaching algebra through sequence problems: exploring children's strategies', Research in Mathematics Education 5, 197-214.
  • Houssart, J. (2002) 'Lifelong Learning and Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship', Journal of Mathematical Behavior 21(2), 191-202.
  • Houssart, J. (2001) 'Rival classroom discourses and inquiry mathematics: 'The Whisperers'', The Learning of Mathematics 21(3), 2-8.