Florence Mihaela Singer

University of Ploiesti, Ploiesti, .

E-mail: trimite un mesaj.

Pagina web personala: http://masterprof.academia.edu/FlorenceMihaelaSinger

Nascut(a) in: 2000

Interese: cognitive science, mathematics education, cognition, mind and brain research

Details:
At present, Florence Mihaela Singer is a professor at the University of Ploiesti, Romania.
After the Romanian revolution, in 1990 she started to work at the Institute for Educational Sciences � a national institution for educational research, being consistently involved in the education reform process in Romania. Within the context of the Education Reform Project co-financed by the Romanian Government and the World Bank, she was successively head of the Experts Group in curriculum development, head of the Curriculum Component, and then president of the National Curriculum Council. In this last position, she was one of the coordinators of the process of designing and implementing the Romanian National Curriculum for grades 1-12 (6/7 to 18/19 years old students). In this context, she has been working as editor of the materials connected with the new curriculum in Romania (programs of study for each subject-matter and teachers� guides � more than 50 volumes in total); She has also designed teacher training programs, and delivered in-service-training for mathematics teachers, grades 1 to 12. More recently, she has worked as international education consultant in Romania, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan (within World Bank education programs), and Estonia (under the Council of Europe contract). During the university year 2002-2003, she was a visiting research scholar at Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, as a recipient of a Fulbright grant. She has published more than 200 scientific works, including research articles in the psychology of mathematics education, and mathematics textbooks � used as official textbooks in Romania, Georgia and in the Republic of Moldova. Some of the textbooks have been translated in German, Hungarian, Georgian and Russian. In 2005 she has been involved in a team who prepared a textbook within the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project.
Her domains of expertise are: curriculum design and development, teacher training, textbook development (mathematics), educational management, international consultancy in education. She is interested in cognitive science and neuroscience, with a special focus on the psychology of learning.

Publicații selectate:

* Singer, F. M., The Dynamic Infrastructure of Mind - a Hypothesis and Some of its Applications, New Ideas in Psychology, 27, 2009.