Director of School

BA (York)
PGCE (Exeter)
MEd, PhD (Warwick)

Tel: 0116 252 3690
Email: jma30@le.ac.uk 

Janet Ainley is the Director of the School of Education. Janet joined the School as Professor of Education in 2006. Her background is in primary teaching, but she has since had a long career at Warwick Institute of Education as a researcher and teacher educator in mathematics education.

Janet has a broad range of interests in mathematics and statistics education, and in the professional practice of teachers.  She contributes regularly to national and international conferences and journals and supervises Doctoral work in a range of areas of mathematics and statistics education, including teacher development.

Janet is a board member for the European society for Research in Mathematics Education, and a member of the ACME Outer Circle. She was Chair of the British Society for Research in the Learning of Mathematics from 2008-2010 was a panel member for the Williams Review of Primary and Early Years Mathematics. She is member of the Pedagogy and Innovation in Mathematics and Science (education) Special Interest Group. 

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications

Teaching

In addition to the supervision of research students, Janet contributes to the teaching of Research Methods teaching across the Doctoral programmes.

Janet additionally teaches on the MA in Learning and Teaching programme on the following modules:

• Issues in Mathematics Education.
• Professional Enquiry

Selected Recent Publications

Monteiro, C. E. F., Ainley, J. (2010). The Interpretation of graphs: Reflecting on contextual aspects. Alexandria (UFSC), 3, 17 – 30.

Pratt, D., Ainley, J., Kent, P., Levinson, R., Yogui, C. & Kapadia, R. (Forthcoming) Informal Inferential Reasoning as a Contextualised Risk-Based Enterprise. Mathematical Thinking and Learning

Pratt, D., Johnston-Wilder, P., Ainley, J. & Mason, J. (2008) Local and global thinking in statistical inference., Statistics Education Research Journal, 7(2), 107-129, http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/serj

Ainley, J. & Luntley, M. (2007) Towards an articulation of expert classroom practice, Teaching and Teacher Education 23(7) 1127-1138.

Ainley, J. & Luntley, M. (2007) The role of attention in expert classroom practice. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education 10(1), 3-22.