Jennifer Way
Biographic Data
| ID | 239912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Way |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Way |
| SIGNATURE | WAY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8731-0612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Changing Structures of Attention When Learning About Decimal Fractions with Digital Tools
Decimals are of great significance in the primary mathematics curriculum due to their application and use in everyday life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of certain dynamic digital representations in developing students’ knowledge of decimal fractions. Task-based interviews were used with six Year 4 (9–10 years old) students that incorporated four different dynamic digital representations of decimals. Data collect…
Supporting Pre-School Children’s Number Learning Through Embodied Representation
Situated within the Embodied Learning in Early Mathematics and Science project in Australia, this paper explores the relationships between ‘embodied activities’ used by a preschool teacher and the children’s development of number sense over six months. Using an instrumental case study approach, qualitative data from multiple sources including self-reported data from the teacher, activity descriptions, two task-based interviews with nine children,…
Developing young children’s perceptual observations and representations
Although contemporary views of science learning emphasise the critical role of a student’s representational competence, scientific drawing is rarely taught in the early years of school and little advice is available for teachers. This set of three connected studies investigated the perceptual drawing accuracy of 5–8-year-old children’s drawings of a plant and their responses to the brief Draw like a scientist intervention. Three sets of drawings …
Embodied Learning in Early Mathematics Education
There exists a substantial body of research evidence that embodied learning modes can enhance children’s mathematics learning, yet implementation of the research findings in classrooms has so far been limited. This paper argues the need for translational research to bridge the gap between psychological, neuroscientific, and narrow-focused educational research and teaching practice in schools. As a foundation for such research, and with a focus on…
The Material Culture of Basketry
Stem 1, 2, 3
Recent research advocating the educational value of engaging primary students in authentic integrated STEM inquiry projects also identifies challenges for teachers aspiring to high-quality student-learning experiences. Teachers require support to integrate disciplines, prioritise processes and reasoning over curriculum content, and increase student autonomy in purposeful STEM projects. Within the context of a year-long professional learning progr…
The Politics of Vietnamese Craft
Review Article| May 29 2020 The Politics of Vietnamese Craft: American Diplomacy and Domestication Jennifer Way, Jennifer Way Jennifer Way is a professor of art history at the University of North Texas. Her research and teaching explore the social meanings and uses people make of visual art, craft, design, material culture, and exhibitions, emphasizing the period since the mid twentieth century. Search for other works by this author on: This Site…
Narrative Failures
This article considers what an unstudied collection of Vietnamese handicraft owned by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History reveals about its collecting culture and, conversely, what the collecting culture discloses about the collection. I show how the collecting culture’s activities intersected with American State Department efforts to bring postcolonial South Vietnam into the Free World during the Cold War. Attention to the Smithso…
Allaying Terror
A photograph of a basketmaker and photographs of other refugee artisans published in the August 1956 issue of Interiors magazine iterated some common themes of refugee narratives during a decade of significant migration that saw the United Nations sponsor World Refugee Year in 1959. Of particular interest are the ways the publication of the basketmaker photograph helped to demonstrate how Vietnamese refugee artisans suited the needs of an America…
Mobilizing Craft
Twenty-five years ago, American Studies scholar Amy Kaplan reminded us that “The study of American culture has traditionally been cut off from the study of foreign relations” (1993: 11). Since then, the fields of American Studies and the history of American art respectively have raised questions about the United States in the world. However, in studying American art, we have not fully explored how American encounters with what the nation consider…
The Liminal Collection
115 Jennifer Way The Liminal Collection: Vietnamese Handicraft at the Smithsonian The position of Asian artifacts in the Smithsonian remains, in some cases, peripheral. While Asian handicraft has been collected and housed for the better part of the last century, these artifacts have often languished as loose groups of material waiting to be made meaningful by curatorial processes. In 1995, Paul Michael Taylor, director of the Smithsonian Asian Cu…
Exploring the Ups and Downs of Mathematics Engagement in the Middle Years of School
This study of 1,601 students in the middle years of schooling (Grades 5-8, each student measured twice, 1 year apart) from 200 classrooms in 44 schools sought to identify factors explaining gains and declines in mathematics engagement at key transition points. In multilevel regression modeling, findings showed that compared with Grade 6 students (upper elementary; the reference category), students in Grades 7 (typically the first secondary school…
War by Other Means
War by Other Means places violence in contemporary Guatemala in historical context, exploring “the violence war both channels from earlier times and generates anew” and questioning “histories of the future,” or “the promise that an ‘after’ to this war will someday come” (p. 10). Part of a new wave of scholarship on neoliberal Guatemala, this volume's fine-grained studies bridge wartime and postwar violence in local communities. The work also inte…
Reading Psychological Atlas Transnationally
This essay identifies aspects of Eduardo Paolozzi's art and life that warrant study from a transnational perspective. As an example, it considers how Paolozzi's collage-book, Psychological Atlas, 1949, uses a catalogue for the exhibition ‘Kunstschaffen in Deutschland’ to intensify its exploration of mobility, how people and objects belong to a place and a nation, the reclamation of cultural patrimony and the revitalization of nation-based, contem…
Quinn, Marc
Sensing the Past
A framework for analysing ICT adoption in Australian primary schools
Over 400 e-learning grant applications from Australian primary schools were analysed to determine the nature of the proposed ICT based projects in literacy and numeracy. Three key dimensions emerged from the teacher descriptions: ICT infrastructure, motivation and ICT use, and pedagogy and innovation. The three dimensions, and the interactions between them, provide a means for understanding the complex factors within an individual school that det…
Imaginings’ of Geography
Reterritorialization and Whispers From the Walls
According to Kellie Jones, reterritorialization involves 'recapturing one's (combined and various) history, much of which has been dismissed as an insignificant footnote to the dominant culture'. In this essay, I bring artist and photography scholar Deborah Willis's use of Jones's concept of reterritorialization to bear on Whispers from the Walls, an installation that Whitfield Lovell created at the University of North Texas Art Gallery in 1999. …
"In due course themselves advertisements?" Painterly Abstract Painting and Discourses of Consumer Culture in the 1950s
This essay reconstitutes the sense artists and intellectuals made of vanguard painting in relation to a consumer culture they observed burgeoning in the United States during the 1950s. In analyzing how painterly abstract painting approximated its forms and practices, they surmised consumer culture was becoming hegemonic and tending to frustrate redress thereof. However, the essay identifies an alternative to the inevitable course of culture comme…
Exploring the Ups and Downs of Mathematics Engagement in the Middle Years of School
This study of 1,601 students in the middle years of schooling (Grades 5-8, each student measured twice, 1 year apart) from 200 classrooms in 44 schools sought to identify factors explaining gains and declines in mathematics engagement at key transition points. In multilevel regression modeling, findings showed that compared with Grade 6 students (upper elementary; the reference category), students in Grades 7 (typically the first secondary school…
The Liminal Collection
115 Jennifer Way The Liminal Collection: Vietnamese Handicraft at the Smithsonian The position of Asian artifacts in the Smithsonian remains, in some cases, peripheral. While Asian handicraft has been collected and housed for the better part of the last century, these artifacts have often languished as loose groups of material waiting to be made meaningful by curatorial processes. In 1995, Paul Michael Taylor, director of the Smithsonian Asian Cu…
"In due course themselves advertisements?" Painterly Abstract Painting and Discourses of Consumer Culture in the 1950s
This essay reconstitutes the sense artists and intellectuals made of vanguard painting in relation to a consumer culture they observed burgeoning in the United States during the 1950s. In analyzing how painterly abstract painting approximated its forms and practices, they surmised consumer culture was becoming hegemonic and tending to frustrate redress thereof. However, the essay identifies an alternative to the inevitable course of culture comme…
Reterritorialization and Whispers From the Walls
According to Kellie Jones, reterritorialization involves 'recapturing one's (combined and various) history, much of which has been dismissed as an insignificant footnote to the dominant culture'. In this essay, I bring artist and photography scholar Deborah Willis's use of Jones's concept of reterritorialization to bear on Whispers from the Walls, an installation that Whitfield Lovell created at the University of North Texas Art Gallery in 1999. …
Imaginings’ of Geography
A framework for analysing ICT adoption in Australian primary schools
Over 400 e-learning grant applications from Australian primary schools were analysed to determine the nature of the proposed ICT based projects in literacy and numeracy. Three key dimensions emerged from the teacher descriptions: ICT infrastructure, motivation and ICT use, and pedagogy and innovation. The three dimensions, and the interactions between them, provide a means for understanding the complex factors within an individual school that det…
Sensing the Past
Quinn, Marc
Reading Psychological Atlas Transnationally
This essay identifies aspects of Eduardo Paolozzi's art and life that warrant study from a transnational perspective. As an example, it considers how Paolozzi's collage-book, Psychological Atlas, 1949, uses a catalogue for the exhibition ‘Kunstschaffen in Deutschland’ to intensify its exploration of mobility, how people and objects belong to a place and a nation, the reclamation of cultural patrimony and the revitalization of nation-based, contem…
Exploring the Ups and Downs of Mathematics Engagement in the Middle Years of School
This study of 1,601 students in the middle years of schooling (Grades 5-8, each student measured twice, 1 year apart) from 200 classrooms in 44 schools sought to identify factors explaining gains and declines in mathematics engagement at key transition points. In multilevel regression modeling, findings showed that compared with Grade 6 students (upper elementary; the reference category), students in Grades 7 (typically the first secondary school…
War by Other Means
War by Other Means places violence in contemporary Guatemala in historical context, exploring “the violence war both channels from earlier times and generates anew” and questioning “histories of the future,” or “the promise that an ‘after’ to this war will someday come” (p. 10). Part of a new wave of scholarship on neoliberal Guatemala, this volume's fine-grained studies bridge wartime and postwar violence in local communities. The work also inte…
The Liminal Collection
115 Jennifer Way The Liminal Collection: Vietnamese Handicraft at the Smithsonian The position of Asian artifacts in the Smithsonian remains, in some cases, peripheral. While Asian handicraft has been collected and housed for the better part of the last century, these artifacts have often languished as loose groups of material waiting to be made meaningful by curatorial processes. In 1995, Paul Michael Taylor, director of the Smithsonian Asian Cu…
Allaying Terror
A photograph of a basketmaker and photographs of other refugee artisans published in the August 1956 issue of Interiors magazine iterated some common themes of refugee narratives during a decade of significant migration that saw the United Nations sponsor World Refugee Year in 1959. Of particular interest are the ways the publication of the basketmaker photograph helped to demonstrate how Vietnamese refugee artisans suited the needs of an America…
Mobilizing Craft
Twenty-five years ago, American Studies scholar Amy Kaplan reminded us that “The study of American culture has traditionally been cut off from the study of foreign relations” (1993: 11). Since then, the fields of American Studies and the history of American art respectively have raised questions about the United States in the world. However, in studying American art, we have not fully explored how American encounters with what the nation consider…
Narrative Failures
This article considers what an unstudied collection of Vietnamese handicraft owned by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History reveals about its collecting culture and, conversely, what the collecting culture discloses about the collection. I show how the collecting culture’s activities intersected with American State Department efforts to bring postcolonial South Vietnam into the Free World during the Cold War. Attention to the Smithso…
The Politics of Vietnamese Craft
Review Article| May 29 2020 The Politics of Vietnamese Craft: American Diplomacy and Domestication Jennifer Way, Jennifer Way Jennifer Way is a professor of art history at the University of North Texas. Her research and teaching explore the social meanings and uses people make of visual art, craft, design, material culture, and exhibitions, emphasizing the period since the mid twentieth century. Search for other works by this author on: This Site…
Stem 1, 2, 3
Recent research advocating the educational value of engaging primary students in authentic integrated STEM inquiry projects also identifies challenges for teachers aspiring to high-quality student-learning experiences. Teachers require support to integrate disciplines, prioritise processes and reasoning over curriculum content, and increase student autonomy in purposeful STEM projects. Within the context of a year-long professional learning progr…
The Material Culture of Basketry
Embodied Learning in Early Mathematics Education
There exists a substantial body of research evidence that embodied learning modes can enhance children’s mathematics learning, yet implementation of the research findings in classrooms has so far been limited. This paper argues the need for translational research to bridge the gap between psychological, neuroscientific, and narrow-focused educational research and teaching practice in schools. As a foundation for such research, and with a focus on…
Changing Structures of Attention When Learning About Decimal Fractions with Digital Tools
Decimals are of great significance in the primary mathematics curriculum due to their application and use in everyday life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of certain dynamic digital representations in developing students’ knowledge of decimal fractions. Task-based interviews were used with six Year 4 (9–10 years old) students that incorporated four different dynamic digital representations of decimals. Data collect…
Supporting Pre-School Children’s Number Learning Through Embodied Representation
Situated within the Embodied Learning in Early Mathematics and Science project in Australia, this paper explores the relationships between ‘embodied activities’ used by a preschool teacher and the children’s development of number sense over six months. Using an instrumental case study approach, qualitative data from multiple sources including self-reported data from the teacher, activity descriptions, two task-based interviews with nine children,…
Developing young children’s perceptual observations and representations
Although contemporary views of science learning emphasise the critical role of a student’s representational competence, scientific drawing is rarely taught in the early years of school and little advice is available for teachers. This set of three connected studies investigated the perceptual drawing accuracy of 5–8-year-old children’s drawings of a plant and their responses to the brief Draw like a scientist intervention. Three sets of drawings …
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