Peter Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3974795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0179-6528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Preparing for mathematics lessons through small-group tutoring: Changes in student attitudes and beliefs about mathematics
The Getting Ready in Numeracy (GRIN) program is a targeted intervention designed to support students struggling with mathematics by preparing them for upcoming lessons through small-group tutoring. This study examined changes in students’ attitudes towards mathematics (enjoyment, coping, valuing), students’ views on mathematics as a problem-solving discipline (mathematics as solving open problems flexibly), and descriptive norm-referenced achieve…
Optimizing learning conditions for self-determination in primary mathematics education: A theoretical perspective
Fostering motivation and engagement in mathematics requires learning conditions that support students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Self-Determination Theory [SDT] (Ryan & Deci, 2017) provides a valuable framework for understanding how these psychological needs shape students’ experiences of learning mathematics. This paper explores how SDT can inform the design of optimal learning conditions in primary school mathematics education, par…
Teaching with challenging tasks in the early years: Teacher perspectives and affective outcomes for teachers and students
This study examines teachers’ perspectives on implementing challenging mathematics tasks in the early years of schooling (Foundation– Year 2), focusing on beliefs regarding frequency, timing, and enabling conditions, as well as affective outcomes for teachers and students. Findings are drawn from 82 teachers across 16 schools who completed a research-informed professional learning program, which focused on teaching with challenging tasks in the e…
Primary Teacher Attitudes towards Productive Struggle in Mathematics in Remote Learning versus Classroom-Based Settings
Given what is known about the importance of productive struggle for supporting student learning of mathematics at all levels, the current study sought to examine teacher attitudes towards student struggle when students learn mathematics in remote learning settings compared with classroom settings. Eighty-two Australian early years primary teachers involved in a professional learning initiative focused on teaching mathematics through sequences of …
Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics
Exploring the relationship between teacher enjoyment of mathematics, their attitudes towards student struggle and instructional time amongst early years primary teachers
In this study we explored the relationship between teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics, their attitudes towards student struggle, and the amount of time teachers spent teaching mathematics. Ninety-eight primary educators were surveyed regarding their attitudes and behaviors towards mathematics instruction. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics explained variance in both teacher attitudes to…
Playgroups as sites for parental education
There is widespread international interest in parental education as a means of promoting educational equality through improving educational outcomes for young children. The research in this area suggests an association between the home learning environment and children’s educational outcomes and highlights the importance of parental education for supporting young children’s learning through play. This article reviews the international literature …
Wittgenstein's Tractatus: History and Interpretation
These new studies of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' represent a significant step beyond recent polemical debate. They cover a wide range of themes, and show that close investigation into the composition of the work, and into the various influences on it, has much to yield in revealing the complexity and fertility of Wittgenstein's early thought
Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism
Kant's introduction of a distinctive form of philosophical investigation and proof, known as transcendental, inaugurated a new philosophical tradition. In this volume eight original essays assess the present state and contemporary relevance of this tradition and its relation to the naturalistic tendency in recent philosophy
Good learning = A Good Life: Mathematics Transformation in Remote Indigenous Communities
The performance of Australian Indigenous 1 learners is a national concern. The federal government has recognised that health and education are keys to closing the gap between the achievement of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people and has made health and education a national priority. Through its ‘Closing the Gap’ initiative, the Rudd government is allocating significant amounts of money to redress the poor health and education among Indigenous A…
Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell
Book Review| January 01 2010 Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell Gregory Landini, Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 300 pp. Peter Sullivan Peter Sullivan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 100–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2009-028 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
Making the pedagogic relay inclusive for indigenous Australian students in mathematics classrooms
Many students are unsuccessful in the study of school mathematics, not because of some innate ability, but because of pedagogical practices. Bernstein () has argued that pedagogy serves as a mechanism for cultural reproduction, so that for those students whose cultures are different from that represented in and through pedagogy, the task of constructing school mathematics is made more difficult. The paper explores the ways in which a teacher chan…
Frege: Importance and Legacy
Book Review| October 01 2000 Frege: Importance and Legacy FREGE: IMPORTANCE AND LEGACY. Edited by Matthias Schirn. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1996. Pp. ix, 466. Peter M. Sullivan Peter M. Sullivan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 648–652. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-4-648 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter M. Sullivan; Frege: Importanc…
Frege: Importance and Legacy
Wittgenstein on “The Foundations of Mathematics”, June 1927
The Sense of `A Name of a Truth-Value
1. No one needs to be persuaded that Frege went wrong in merging sentences with singular terms in a single logical type. Even so, those who on occasion find themselves expounding Frege may well feel the need for a relatively compact argument that shows how he went wrong. There are arguments available, both long and short. The definitive short arguments are those presented by Wittgenstein, at Tractatus 4.063 and 6.111. Among longer arguments, none…
Playgroups as sites for parental education
There is widespread international interest in parental education as a means of promoting educational equality through improving educational outcomes for young children. The research in this area suggests an association between the home learning environment and children’s educational outcomes and highlights the importance of parental education for supporting young children’s learning through play. This article reviews the international literature …
Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism
Kant's introduction of a distinctive form of philosophical investigation and proof, known as transcendental, inaugurated a new philosophical tradition. In this volume eight original essays assess the present state and contemporary relevance of this tradition and its relation to the naturalistic tendency in recent philosophy
Exploring the relationship between teacher enjoyment of mathematics, their attitudes towards student struggle and instructional time amongst early years primary teachers
In this study we explored the relationship between teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics, their attitudes towards student struggle, and the amount of time teachers spent teaching mathematics. Ninety-eight primary educators were surveyed regarding their attitudes and behaviors towards mathematics instruction. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics explained variance in both teacher attitudes to…
Making the pedagogic relay inclusive for indigenous Australian students in mathematics classrooms
Many students are unsuccessful in the study of school mathematics, not because of some innate ability, but because of pedagogical practices. Bernstein () has argued that pedagogy serves as a mechanism for cultural reproduction, so that for those students whose cultures are different from that represented in and through pedagogy, the task of constructing school mathematics is made more difficult. The paper explores the ways in which a teacher chan…
The Sense of `A Name of a Truth-Value
1. No one needs to be persuaded that Frege went wrong in merging sentences with singular terms in a single logical type. Even so, those who on occasion find themselves expounding Frege may well feel the need for a relatively compact argument that shows how he went wrong. There are arguments available, both long and short. The definitive short arguments are those presented by Wittgenstein, at Tractatus 4.063 and 6.111. Among longer arguments, none…
Wittgenstein on “The Foundations of Mathematics”, June 1927
Frege: Importance and Legacy
Book Review| October 01 2000 Frege: Importance and Legacy FREGE: IMPORTANCE AND LEGACY. Edited by Matthias Schirn. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1996. Pp. ix, 466. Peter M. Sullivan Peter M. Sullivan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 648–652. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-4-648 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter M. Sullivan; Frege: Importanc…
Frege: Importance and Legacy
Making the pedagogic relay inclusive for indigenous Australian students in mathematics classrooms
Many students are unsuccessful in the study of school mathematics, not because of some innate ability, but because of pedagogical practices. Bernstein () has argued that pedagogy serves as a mechanism for cultural reproduction, so that for those students whose cultures are different from that represented in and through pedagogy, the task of constructing school mathematics is made more difficult. The paper explores the ways in which a teacher chan…
Good learning = A Good Life: Mathematics Transformation in Remote Indigenous Communities
The performance of Australian Indigenous 1 learners is a national concern. The federal government has recognised that health and education are keys to closing the gap between the achievement of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people and has made health and education a national priority. Through its ‘Closing the Gap’ initiative, the Rudd government is allocating significant amounts of money to redress the poor health and education among Indigenous A…
Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell
Book Review| January 01 2010 Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell Gregory Landini, Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 300 pp. Peter Sullivan Peter Sullivan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 100–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2009-028 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism
Kant's introduction of a distinctive form of philosophical investigation and proof, known as transcendental, inaugurated a new philosophical tradition. In this volume eight original essays assess the present state and contemporary relevance of this tradition and its relation to the naturalistic tendency in recent philosophy
Wittgenstein's Tractatus: History and Interpretation
These new studies of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' represent a significant step beyond recent polemical debate. They cover a wide range of themes, and show that close investigation into the composition of the work, and into the various influences on it, has much to yield in revealing the complexity and fertility of Wittgenstein's early thought
Playgroups as sites for parental education
There is widespread international interest in parental education as a means of promoting educational equality through improving educational outcomes for young children. The research in this area suggests an association between the home learning environment and children’s educational outcomes and highlights the importance of parental education for supporting young children’s learning through play. This article reviews the international literature …
Exploring the relationship between teacher enjoyment of mathematics, their attitudes towards student struggle and instructional time amongst early years primary teachers
In this study we explored the relationship between teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics, their attitudes towards student struggle, and the amount of time teachers spent teaching mathematics. Ninety-eight primary educators were surveyed regarding their attitudes and behaviors towards mathematics instruction. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics explained variance in both teacher attitudes to…
Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics
Primary Teacher Attitudes towards Productive Struggle in Mathematics in Remote Learning versus Classroom-Based Settings
Given what is known about the importance of productive struggle for supporting student learning of mathematics at all levels, the current study sought to examine teacher attitudes towards student struggle when students learn mathematics in remote learning settings compared with classroom settings. Eighty-two Australian early years primary teachers involved in a professional learning initiative focused on teaching mathematics through sequences of …
Preparing for mathematics lessons through small-group tutoring: Changes in student attitudes and beliefs about mathematics
The Getting Ready in Numeracy (GRIN) program is a targeted intervention designed to support students struggling with mathematics by preparing them for upcoming lessons through small-group tutoring. This study examined changes in students’ attitudes towards mathematics (enjoyment, coping, valuing), students’ views on mathematics as a problem-solving discipline (mathematics as solving open problems flexibly), and descriptive norm-referenced achieve…
Optimizing learning conditions for self-determination in primary mathematics education: A theoretical perspective
Fostering motivation and engagement in mathematics requires learning conditions that support students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Self-Determination Theory [SDT] (Ryan & Deci, 2017) provides a valuable framework for understanding how these psychological needs shape students’ experiences of learning mathematics. This paper explores how SDT can inform the design of optimal learning conditions in primary school mathematics education, par…
Teaching with challenging tasks in the early years: Teacher perspectives and affective outcomes for teachers and students
This study examines teachers’ perspectives on implementing challenging mathematics tasks in the early years of schooling (Foundation– Year 2), focusing on beliefs regarding frequency, timing, and enabling conditions, as well as affective outcomes for teachers and students. Findings are drawn from 82 teachers across 16 schools who completed a research-informed professional learning program, which focused on teaching with challenging tasks in the e…
Computer Science (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (4 works) · Citation (3 works) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works)