Dr Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai

Biography

Dr. Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai is currently working as a Lecturer in Primary Mathematics Education in the Department of Institute of Education, University of Reading, United Kingdom. Responsibilities: University Responsibilities: • Facilitator for the Faculty-wide training sessions on undergraduate dissertation supervision. • Facilitator for the University-wide training sessions on the use of Facebook as a teaching and learning tool. Institute of Education Responsibilities: • Member of the Institute of Education's Research Ethics Committee. • Mentor to new lecturers. • PhD and EdD Supervisor. • MA Supervisor. • School Direct (a postgraduate teacher training programme with Primary Mathematics Specialism) Tutor. • BA Ed Mathematics Course Leader. • Year 3 BA Ed - Dissertation Module Co-ordinator and Supervisor (2014-2015). • Year 3 BA Ed - Mathematics - Inclusion, Diversity and Intervention (ED3SS1) Module Convenor. • BA Ed Year 3 Mathematics, Children and Education 3 (ED3AC4) Contributor. • Year 2 BA Ed - Mathematics, Children and Education 2 (ED2AC4) Module Convenor. • Year 1 BA Ed - Mathematics, Children and Education 1 (ED1AC4) Module Convenor. • Years 1, 2 and 3 BA Ed School Placement Supervisor. • BA Ed Years 1, 2 and 3 Personal Tutor. External Responsibilities: • Executive Committee Member & Conference Organiser (2015-2017),British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM) (www.bsrlm.org.uk). • Co-Chair of the Communications Sub-Committee & BSRLM Representative (2015-2018),British Congress of Mathematics Education (BCME9), a committee of the Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom (JMC) (www.bcme.org.uk, www.jmc.org.uk/council). • Founder (2015-Present). www.mathsthroughstories.org Teaching Responsibilities: • For university-level teaching, please see above. • For school-level teaching: as a UK-trained qualified primary teacher, I actively worked as a supply teacher from early 2009 to 2013, whilst completing my doctoral research and subsequently whilst working as a researcher on the CLS project (see below). In total, I worked in 40 state primary schools across Cambridgeshire and London, particularly around Hackney, Camden, and Ealing. Of those 40 schools, I covered around 90 classes (from Nursery/Reception to Year 6), teaching mathematics and other curricular subjects to over 2,700 children of various learning needs and ethnicities in a variety of school and classroom settings. • Research groups / Centres: • Equity, Inclusion and Improvement (EII).

Research Interest

Primary mathematics education. Mathematics teachers' epistemological and pedagogical beliefs. Pupils' attitudes towards mathematics, its teaching and learning. International perspectives on mathematics teaching and learning. Culture and pedagogy. Use of (children's) literature to help enhance mathematics teaching and learning from the early year level to the university level. Use of abacus to develop children's conceptual understanding of place value. Relationships between English as Additional Language (EAL) children's English language proficiency and their mathematical proficiency.