Teaching and Learning
162 Wyatt
Peabody #330
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
615-343-7063
615-322-8999
Mathematics education; learning in/out of school; comparative studies of representational practice in mathematics, science, and technology; project-based pedagogy and classroom environments; interactional studies of language, action (including gesture), and inscription.
Rogers Hall is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University. His research interests include: the learning and teaching of mathematics, both as a school topic and as a resource for modeling and inference in scientific inquiry; studies of learning in and out of school; comparative studies of mathematical activity in school and work settings, and (most generally) the organization and development of representational practices in technical and scientific work.
Selected publications include “Interactive and historical processes of distributing statistical concepts through work organization” (Mind, Culture, and Activity, 14 (1&2), 103-127, 2007, with K. Wright and K. Wieckert), “Modeling without end: Conflict across organizational and disciplinary boundaries in habitat conservation planning” (In R. Lesh, E. Hamilton & J. Kaput (Eds.), Foundations for the future in mathematics education (pp. 57-76), 2007, LEA, with B. Goldstein), and “Reconstructing the learning sciences" Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14(1), 139-155, 2005.