Rafael Pellizzer Soares, MEd, MBA, BMath, BEd
Pronouns: he/him
Contact
GTA Principal Instructor, Faculty Of Education - Aboriginal Teacher Education Program
- pellizze@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Story-listening Culturally Relational Mathematics Education Clowning and Improvisation
About
Rafael is a Brazilian educator with more than twenty-five years of experience in mathematics education, teacher education, pedagogical leadership, and clowning across Brazil and Canada. Having worked as a secondary math teacher, school pedagogical coordinator, textbook reviewer, clown and improv performer, and founder and president of a not-for-profit educational program for low-income students in Brazil, Rafael currently lives in Edmonton, AB, and serves as a principal instructor with the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP) at the University of Alberta. His ongoing doctoral research-creation builds on his previous studies on story-listening, which explored Critical, Indigenous, and Clown (CIC) pedagogies and their educational constraints and affordances, and investigates the potential of story-listening as a culturally relational approach to mathematics teaching.
Courses
EDEL 415 - Issues in Elementary Mathematics Education
Focus is on current issues in mathematics education related to teacher and student roles, mathematical tasks and tools, and the learning environment. Prerequisite: An introductory curriculum and instruction course in mathematics education or consent of the Faculty.