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Raffaella Borasi is a mathematics educator with special interests
in an inquiry approach to teaching mathematics, school mathematics
reform, professional development, and teacher education. She
works with both elementary and secondary mathematics teachers
as well as doctoral students specializing in mathematics education.
Borasi, who joined the Warner School faculty in 1985, has
degrees in mathematics and education from the University of
Torino and was a Fulbright Student at the SUNY Buffalo. She
has worked on several research projects funded by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) to improve mathematics instruction.
She has published more than 40 articles in national and international
journals, including the Journal for Research in Mathematics
Education and Educational Studies in Mathematics.
She is the author of three books, Learning Mathematics
Through Inquiry (Heinemann, 1992); Reconceiving Mathematics
Instruction: A Focus on Errors (Issues in Curriculum Theory,
Policy, and Research) (Ablex, 1996); and Reading Counts:
Expanding the Role of Reading in Mathematics Classrooms
(Teachers College Press, 2000). She recently co-authored an
NSF-commissioned monograph, Professional Development that
Supports School Mathematics Reform (2002), which was widely
circulated by the NSF to school systems across the nation
as a blueprint for successful school mathematics reform through
professional development.
Borasi, installed as the Warner School’s 6th dean in
2001, now balances her work in mathematics education and school
reform with a demanding agenda of administrative and leadership
duties. She also continues to teach in the teacher preparation
and doctoral programs.
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