Dr Peter Pawlik

Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education)

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Biography

Summary

I took my up my post in Man Met in 2010 and have led the BSc (Hons) Secondary Mathematics with QTS degree since 2016. In 2022 I started leading the Primary Education with Mathematics programme, which provides a specialist pathway to those students who wish to undertake a generalist primary teaching degree, but who also want to engage in a deeper exploration of and a specialist understanding of teaching mathematics. I also teach on the Secondary Mathematics PGCE. During this time I completed my Doctoral studies on the ‘The discursive construction of the mastery curriculum in mathematics’. I began my career as a mathematics teacher working Botswana and school in North West England.

My research work is primarily concerned with considering mathematics education through the lens of contemporary social theory. My recent research work has focused on ways in which the idea of a mastery curriculum shapes ideological understanding of mathematics education. I have presented papers at the BSLRM and MCET(Mathematics Education and Contemporary Theory) conferences on how teachers construct knowledge of the‘mastery curriculum’. 

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0161 247 2284
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Research outputs

Pawlik, P. (2020). The discursive construction of the mastery curriculum in mathematics. Doctor of Education thesis. Manchester Metropolitan University.

Brown, T., Pawlik, P. (2020). ‘The ideology of mastering the curriculum.’ In T. Brown A contemporary theory of mathematics education research. Switzerland: Springer.

Pawlik, P. (2016). Mastering the curriculum. In G. Adams (Eds.) Proceedings of the British Society of Research into Learning Mathematics, 36(2), pp. 49-54

  • Conference papers

    Hanley, C., Underhill, H., Ramsay, A., Overland, E., Patterson, R., Ariza, P., Baynham, J., Pawlik, P., Dunk, R. (2018) 'Exploring Higher Education: An investigation into teacher educators’ conceptualisations of learning in university..' In British Educational Research Association conference. Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK,