Dr Jana Visnovska
Dr

Jana Visnovska

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Background

I am a senior lecturer in mathematics education at the University of Queensland. My research centres around design and theorising of resources for teaching mathematics well. This includes development of classroom mathematical activities, in which students encounter significant mathematical ideas and joy of the experience; support of mathematics teachers’ work so that they can organise their classrooms for their students' meaningful engagement with mathematics; and inquiries into history of mathematics and education aimed at understanding of possibilities for change. I have served as an editor of the Australian Mathematics Education Journal and currently am the Vice President for Publications within Mathematics Eudctaion Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), and an IPC member for the International Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching.

I completed a Magister degree in mathematics at Comenius University in Slovakia and a PhD in mathematics education at Vanderbilt University in the USA. Before taking my role at UQ, I have taught middle-years mathematics and lectured in mathematics and mathematics education at Comenius, Vanderbilt, and University of California, Santa Cruz. As part of my research, I regularly spend time in schools and classrooms.

Availability

Dr Jana Visnovska is:
Available for supervision
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Fields of research

Curriculum and pedagogy Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development Education Education systems Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy Primary education Secondary education

Qualifications

  • Masters (Research) of Mathematics, Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Graduate Certificate in Teaching (Secondary), Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Education, Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Research interests

  • Mathematics Education

    My research is centred within mathematics education, driven by the need to teach mathematics well. I view my role as a researcher in co-development of teaching resources, and of professional discourse, capable of supporting mathematics teaching.

  • Design Research

  • Teaching Materials and Resources

  • Teacher Professional Development

Search Professor Jana Visnovska’s works on UQ eSpace

102 works between 1999 and 2024
All (102) Journal Article (23) Book Chapter (14) Conference Publication (60) Book (4) Edited Outputs (1)

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2003

Conference Publication

Building on students' reasoning: Using students' pre-conceptions of proportional relations in developing instruction

Visnovska, Jana and Cortina, Jose Luis (2003). Building on students' reasoning: Using students' pre-conceptions of proportional relations in developing instruction. Seventh International Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching, Prague, Czech Republic, 24-29 August 2003. Prague, Czech Republic: Charles University, Faculty of Education.

Building on students' reasoning: Using students' pre-conceptions of proportional relations in developing instruction

1999

Conference Publication

Children and the discovery of the mathematical rules

Visnovska, J. (1999). Children and the discovery of the mathematical rules. Fifth International Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching, Prague, Czech Republic, 1999.

Children and the discovery of the mathematical rules

Past funding

  • 2017 - 2018
    Developing ambitious teaching practices in mathematics: Collaborating to learn
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2017
    Inspiring mathematics and science in teacher education
    OLT Enhancing the Training of Mathematics and Science Teachers Program (ETMST)
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Supporting the learning of teacher communities in remote regions with high teacher turnover: Resource development pilot
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Supporting the learning of Professional Teaching Communities in remote regions with high teacher turnover
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2011
    UQ Travel Awards Category 2 - Dr Jana Visnovska
    UQ Travel Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    Mathematics teachers' learning in the institutional context of Queensland schools: study of induction of a teacher cohort into a professional development group
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Dr Jana Visnovska is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Fractions and proportional reasoning across the years of schooling

    Big part of my research includes exploring, understanding, and developing teaching resources that would aid teachers in making it possible for all students to thrive in mathematics classrooms. Typical resources used for initial teaching of fractions often support students' "performance" in the short run, but later undermine their efforts of making sense of proportionality. In this project, you will explore the types of difficulties students face and how these difficulties relate to the resources used in their teaching, and propose and trial alternative pathways for teaching fractions and proportionality in mathematics classrooms.

  • Theorising and design of (mathematics) teachers' resources

    Teaching resources (textbooks and their alternatives) reveal how we, as a society, and as researchers and designers, conceptualise teaching. On the one hand, resources can dictate to the teacher what is to be done. On the orther hand, they can collaborate with the teacher on figuring out how to best respond to different situations that arise in different classrooms. To produce resources that would be most useful to teachers in their diverse classrooms, researchers and designers must deal well with and rigorously theorise the complexity of education and teaching. How should we conceptualise teaching and how can we bring a particular conceptualisation of a teacher and teaching into resource design?

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Differentiating instruction in early secondary mathematics

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Stephen Heimans

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Institutional language policies, academic literacies and power: a collaborative investigation of practices in higher education in Queensland

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Stephen Heimans

  • Master Philosophy

    Designing mathematics instructions and tasks for green education

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Katie Makar

  • Doctor Philosophy

    An Epistemology of Practice for Political and Existential Citizenship

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Stephen Heimans

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Dr Jana Visnovska directly for media enquiries about:

  • Ambitious and equitable teaching of mathematics
  • Classroom mathematical conversations
  • Professional development of mathematics teachers
  • Purposes of mathematics education
  • Teaching early number
  • Teaching fractions
  • Teaching Numeracy across curriculum
  • Teaching problem solving
  • Teaching proportional reasoning

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