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Dr Jana Visnovska
Dr

Jana Visnovska

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Overview

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:
Not available for supervision
Media expert

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

Works

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108 works between 1999 and 2025

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2006

Conference Publication

Professional-development design: Building on current instructional practices to achieve a professional-development agenda

Visnovska, J., Zhao, Q. and Cobb, P. (2006). Professional-development design: Building on current instructional practices to achieve a professional-development agenda. 28th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Merida, Mexico, 9-12 November 2006. Mérida, Mexico: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional.

Professional-development design: Building on current instructional practices to achieve a professional-development agenda

2006

Conference Publication

Supporting the mathematics learning of a professional teaching community: Focusing on teachers' instructional reality

Visnovska, Jana (2006). Supporting the mathematics learning of a professional teaching community: Focusing on teachers' instructional reality. AERA 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Education Research in the Public Interest, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 7-11 April 2006.

Supporting the mathematics learning of a professional teaching community: Focusing on teachers' instructional reality

2005

Conference Publication

Accounting for teachers' instructional realities when supporting their professional development in statistics

Cortina, José Luis, Zhao, Qing and Višňovská, Jana (2005). Accounting for teachers' instructional realities when supporting their professional development in statistics. ISCOTS7: 7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2-7 July 2006. Auckland , New Zealand: International Association for Statistical Education.

Accounting for teachers' instructional realities when supporting their professional development in statistics

2005

Conference Publication

Same video, different understandings: Co-construction of representations of classroom instructional practices within a professional teaching community

Visnovska, J. (2005). Same video, different understandings: Co-construction of representations of classroom instructional practices within a professional teaching community. 27th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Eugene, USA, 2005.

Same video, different understandings: Co-construction of representations of classroom instructional practices within a professional teaching community

2004

Conference Publication

Supporting the mathematics learning of a professional teaching community

Zhao, Q, Visnovska, J and McClain, K (2004). Supporting the mathematics learning of a professional teaching community. Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Diego, USA, 12-16 April 2004.

Supporting the mathematics learning of a professional teaching community

2004

Conference Publication

Using design research to support the learning of professional teaching community of middle-school mathematics teachers

Zhao, Qing, Visnovska, Jana and McClain, Kay (2004). Using design research to support the learning of professional teaching community of middle-school mathematics teachers. 26th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 October 2004. Ontario, Canada: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Using design research to support the learning of professional teaching community of middle-school mathematics teachers

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

Funding

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

Supervision

Availability

Dr Jana Visnovska is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Differentiating instruction in early secondary mathematics

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Stephen Heimans

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Effectiveness of Storytelling in Improving the Mastery of Primary School Students in Fractions Based on the Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) Theory

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Emily Ross

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Stones, Cracks, and Gold: Resisting, Reimagining, and Acknowledging Higher Education in the Shadows of (post?)Neoliberalism - Possibilities of Pluriversity

    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

    Preservice Teachers' Competence in Open Ended Tasks: Inquiry Based Learning Perspective

    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

  • Master Philosophy

    Integrating mathematics and sustainability to raise students¿ awareness and action: A case study

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Katie Makar

  • 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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    An Epistemology of Practice for Political and Existential Citizenship

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Stephen Heimans

Completed supervision

Media

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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