Network Meeting 2018, Bolzano

NW 24 Mathematics education research

Thursday 6^th September 2018, Italy, Bolzano

8 people in place plus link convenors Javier Diez-Palomar and Laura Tuohilampi

Welcoming (Laura/Javi) and introducing the new Link Convenor

• Laura presented herself

Activities of the network during 2017-2018: The season school (Javi)

• Vuslat Seker shared her feelings of the last season school in Barcelona – they were positive and she felt the season school fruitful
• She also suggested making it smoother to get acquainted with the other participants

Overview of the ECER 2018 Bolzano (Javi / Laura)

• We got 51 papers; 3 of them were rejected. 94% of acceptance and 6% of rejection. 
• The highest average for a paper review was 9.7; the lowest was 3.6. 
• The total average of the reviews was 6,65 points.
• The location was tricky, it was beautiful though
• Restictred your choices as you were not close to other networks
• The room didn’t function without a pointer (we used an assistant)
• The breaks were very tight
• ERC was scattered

Possibilities to publish the paper (Bloomsbury, REDIMAT, EEJR) (Laura / Javi) 

• Javi informed about the possibilities
• Birgit reminded that open access journals might be a problem as you need to pay for the publication

Other issues to bring to the LC meeting on Friday (Laura)

• Birgit suggested having special calls in the future (like inclusion, refugees, socio-economic, demographic or low-income issues, cross-cultural awareness; also affect, social learning or inclusion in Australia or early childhood or STEM/STREAM or Curriculum reform and what that means for mathematics education etc)
• Another suggestion was to apply money for season schools and other events for phd students

Planning for next year (Laura)

• We should think of having more types of submissions, like Pecha Kuchas, round tables, posters etc