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37
Citations
11135
World Ranking
6079
National Ranking
363

Overview

Brent Davis is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has contributed extensively to research within the social sciences, particularly focusing on education and cognitive development. Their work spans several subfields including education, automotive engineering, statistics and probability, developmental and educational psychology, and demography.

Davis's research prominently addresses topics such as spatial cognition and navigation, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, cognitive science and mapping, innovative teaching and learning methods, retirement, disability, and employment, mathematics education and teaching techniques, and augmented reality applications.

Recent publications by Davis include:

  • Evaluating the impact of a Spatial Reasoning Mathematics Program (SRMP) intervention in the primary school, 2020, Mathematics Education Research Journal
  • Towards a framework for spatial reasoning and primary mathematics learning: an analytical synthesis of intervention studies, 2020, Mathematics Education Research Journal
  • Malleability of Spatial Reasoning With Short-Term and Long-Term Robotics Interventions, 2021, Technology Knowledge and Learning
  • Post-movement stabilization time for the downwash region of a 6-rotor UAV for remote gas monitoring, 2020, Heliyon
  • Neutron time-of-flight detectors (nTOF) used at Sandia's Z-Machine, 2022, Review of Scientific Instruments

Brent Davis frequently collaborates with a range of co-authors including Krista Francis, Joanne Mulligan, Geoff Woolcott, Stefan Rothschuh, and Nathalie Sinclair. These collaborations help address multifaceted issues within education and technology-enhanced learning.

Key venues for their publications are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Mathematics Education Research Journal
  • Revista Española de Pedagogía
  • Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
  • Technology Knowledge and Learning

Best Publications

  • Complexity and Education: Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research

    Brent Davis;Dennis J. Sumara

  • Engaging Minds: Changing Teaching in Complex Times

    Brent Davis;Dennis J. Sumara;Rebecca Luce-Kapler

  • Cognition, Complexity, and Teacher Education

    Brent Davis;Dennis J. Sumara

  • Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy

    Brent Davis

  • Mathematics-for-Teaching: an Ongoing Investigation of the Mathematics that Teachers (Need to) Know

    Brent Davis;Elaine Simmt

  • Understanding Learning Systems: Mathematics Education and Complexity Science.

    Brent Davis;Elaine Simmt

  • Teaching Mathematics: Toward a Sound Alternative

    Brent Davis

  • Engaging minds : learning and teaching in a complex world

    Brent Davis;Dennis J. Sumara;Rebecca Luce-Kapler

  • Listening for Differences: An Evolving Conception of Mathematics Teaching

    Brent Davis

  • Interrupting Heteronormativity: Toward a Queer Curriculum Theory

    Dennis Sumara;Brent Davis

  • Complexity as a theory of education

    Brent Davis;Dennis Sumara

  • CONSTRUCTIVIST DISCOURSES AND THE FIELD OF EDUCATION: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES

    Brent Davis;Dennis Sumara

  • Complexity and Education: Vital Simultaneities

    Brent Davis

  • Challenging Images of Knowing: Complexity Science and Educational Research.

    Brent Davis;Dennis J. Sumara

  • Why Aren't They Getting This? Working through the regressive myths of constructivist pedagogy

    Brent Davis;Dennis Sumara

  • Enactivist Theory and Community Learning: toward a complexified understanding of action research

    Dennis J. Sumara;Brent Davis

  • Towards a new, complexity science of learning and education

    T. Jörg;B. Davis;G. Nickmans

  • 'If things were simple...': complexity in education.

    Brent Davis;Dennis Sumara

  • The Math Teachers Know: Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics

    Brent Davis;Moshe Renert

  • Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching

    Brent Davis;Dennis J. Sumara;Rebecca Luce-Kapler

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Brown
Tony Brown Manchester Metropolitan University
Shane Dawson
Shane Dawson University of South Australia

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