Name: Mohammad Faaiz Gierdien



Mailing address:
75 Leeuwen Street
Cape Town, 8001
South Africa

Email: mgierdien@uwc.ac.za; gierdien@msu.edu

MSU degree: Ph D, 2001, Teacher Education

Dissertation topic: A comparative study of the rhetoric of mathematics teachers and policymakers in the Western Cape, South Africa

Selected publicationa & presentations:
Constraints, coins and combinations: Working with teachers in the
Northern Cape, South Africa, (accepted) to be presented at the 10th International Congress of Mathematics Education) (ICME 10) conference in Denmark, July 2004.

M. F. Gierdien (2004). Comparing teacher rhetoric and policymaker
rhetoric: examples from mathematics teachers in the Western Cape, In Buffler, A. & Laugskch, R.C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the South African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (pp. 256-265). Durban: SAARMSTE.

M. F. Gierdien (2003). On the challenge of reforming teaching:
Mathematics teachers as members of a rhetorical community
In Proceedings of the KEA/SACHES 2003 Conference, Oct 30th – Nov 2nd, (pp. 21-22). Goudini Spa.

Gierdien, M.F.(2001). Numeral forms in early elementary grade levels. In Speiser, R., Maher, C.A. and Walter C.N. (Eds.), Proceedings of the twenty third Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 669-670). Columbus, OH: ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education

A comparison between teacher rhetoric and policymaker rhetoric in South Africa, A paper presented at American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 24 -28, 2000, New Orleans, LA.

A juxtaposition of teacher rhetoric and policymaker rhetoric in South Africa, A paper presented at Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), March 12th, 2000, San Antonio, Texas.

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Areas of special competence: Mathematics education; school mathematics reform; education reform; A deep interest in the history of mathematics in relation to the teaching and learning of mathematics

Language: English, Afrikaans and some Arabic