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Analúcia D. Schliemann
Ph.D. in Psychology, University of London
Professor of Education, Tufts University
Phone: 617.627.2396
Email:
ana.schliemann@tufts.edu
Analúcia D. Schliemann is Professor of Education at
Tufts University Department of Education. She studied in
Brazil (Licence in Education, UFPE), France (Maîtrise in
Psychology, University of Paris), and England, (PhD. in
Developmental Psychology, University College London),
and was a Fulbright Scholar at LRDC-University of
Pittsburgh. In Brazil, she worked for 20 years at the
Federal University of Pernambuco. Her well-known work on
everyday mathematics has been published in English,
Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. Some of her studies
appear in the book "Street Mathematics and School
Mathematics", in co-authorship with T. Nunes and D.
Carraher (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993),
also available in Portuguese and Spanish. At Tufts, she
develops NSF sponsored research on children's early
algebraic reasoning and on classroom activities designed
to explore the algebraic character of arithmetic in
elementary school, as exemplified by her many recently
published papers and by her book "Bringing out the
Algebraic Character of Arithmetic," with D. Carraher and
B. Brizuela (Erlbaum, 2007). Ana has started the M.S.
and Ph.D. programs in Mathematics, Science, Tecnology,
and Engineering Education at Tufts and is currently its
Program Director. She is equally at home in Mathematics
Education, Developmental Psychology, and Cross-cultural
Psychology.
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