Rafael Pellizzer Soares, MEd, MBA, BMath, BEd

Area of Study / Keywords

Story-listening Culturally Relational Mathematics Education Clowning and Improvisation

About

Rafael is a Brazilian educator and researcher with more than twenty-five years of experience in mathematics education and pedagogical leadership across Brazil and Canada. Having worked as a math teacher, school coordinator, textbook reviewer, clown-teacher, and founder and president of a not-for-profit preparatory 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 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, to investigate the potential of story-listening as a culturally relational approach to mathematics teaching.

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 Department.

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Rafael Pellizzer Soares

2026 January; 10.1007/978-3-032-08534-4