Dr Geoffrey Kent

Academic/Professional qualifications

University of Sussex, PhD Mathematics Education, (2013)

Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford CA, MA in Education, (2001)
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, BA in Philosophy (1999)

Professional history
2013 - Present

Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Institute of Education

2012 - 2013

Mathematics Education Tutor, Institute of Education

Pen Portrait
After earning his BA from the Colorado College in Philosophy, Dr. Geoff Kent went on to
pursue a Masters Degree in Education at the Leland Stanford Junior University School of
Education (SUSE). Subsequently, Geoff spent 6 years as a secondary mathematics
teacher in under-resourced urban schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Driven by a
desire to build on these experiences by engaging in social theory, he recently completed
doctoral studies at the University of Sussex. Geoff has contributed as a Research
Assistant on the REALMS project, and has worked in Initial Teacher Education at IOE on
the Teach First Programme.
Recent research
Raising Expectations and Achievement Levels for all Mathematics Students (REALMS)
Research Project; University of Sussex, UK - Graduate Research Assistant 2009-2011

Publications and Conference Presentations

Kent, G., 2013. Evidence of Distorted Communication as Impetus for Use of Strategies to Achieve
Something Like an Ideal Speech Situation. Welsh Journal of Education 16, 7083.
Boaler, J., Altendorf, L., & Kent, G. (2011) Mathematics and Science Inequalities in the UK:
when elitism, sexism and culture collide. Oxford Review of Education, 37(4)
Boaler, J., Sebba, J., Kent, P., Altendorf, L., Kent, G., Hodgkiss, C., 2011. Raising expectations and
achievement levels for all mathematics students: FINAL REPORT TO THE ESME FAIRBAIRN
FOUNDATION. University of Sussex.

Boaler, J., Altendorf, L., & Kent, G. (2010) Complex Instruction in England the journey, the
new schools, and initial results, Research Report, University of Sussex
Kent, G. (2012) One year seven maths student's use of irony in the reestablishment of the
preconditions for communicative understanding in a small group problem solving interaction,
BERA Early Researcher Conference, University of Manchester

Kent, G. (2012) Intersubjectivity and Group-work: Examining Student Interactions in Year 7

Mixed Ability Mathematics Classes using Complex Instruction in England, YESS6,
Universidade do Algarve
Kent, G. (2012) Intersubjectivity and Group-work: Examining Student Interactions in Year 7
Mixed Ability Mathematics Classes using Complex Instruction in England, Doctoral Student
Conference, University of Sussex
Kent, G. (2012) Intersubjectivity and Group-work: Examining Student Interactions in Year 7
Mixed Ability Mathematics Classes using Complex Instruction in England, BSRLM Early
Researchers Conference, University of Sussex
Kent, G. (2012) Creation of a Space for Discursive Problem Solving using Complex
Instruction Approaches: Communicative Action and Intersubjectivity. Developing quantitative
and language based literacies: breaking the link between poverty and poor attainment,
BERA Seminar, Sponsored by the Language and Literacy, Social Justice and Mathematics
Education SIGS; Swansea Metropolitan University
Altendorf L., Kent, P., and Kent, G. (2011) An Evaluation of Complex Instruction in
Secondary Mathematics Classrooms, BSRLM, Oxford
Kent, G. (2011) Creation of a Space for Discursive Problem Solving Using Complex
Instruction Approaches: Examining Evidence of Intersubjectivity. BERA Annual Conference,
IOE
Kent, G. (2010) Belonging and the Ability to Participate in Principle: Necessities for
Understanding meaning in the Social Sciences as outlined by Habermas in The Theory of
Communicative Action, Doctoral Student Conference, University of Sussex
Kent, G. (2008) Epistemological issues and power relations in mathematics education in the
context of the Incident at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School Fall 2002, Sussex
Institute Doctoral Student Conference, University of Sussex
Kent, G. (2008) Institutional Authority in the Mathematics Classroom and Reform Oriented
Pedagogy: A discussion of theory and research with practical implications, Creating Balance
in an Unjust World: Conference on Math Education and Social Justice, Long Island
University
Professional Development

YESS6 Young European Researchers in Mathematics Education Summer School 2012

Teacher Learning and Development Programme, University of Sussex 2012
STATA Training, University of Sussex, Introduction 2010, Intermediate 2011
SPSS Training, University of Sussex, Introduction 2008, Intermediate 2009
NVIVO Training, University of Sussex, Introduction 2008, Intermediate 2009
Leadership High School Professional Development 2004-2006
Interactive Mathematics Program Trainings, Monterey California, Summer 2004, Winter
2005
Advanced Placement Calculus Professional Development 2003, 2004
CES Fall Forum 2004
Park City Math Institute Professional Development Group 2003-2007
Asilomar NCTM conference 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007