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Associate Editor, Educational Studies in Mathematics. (2013 – present).

International Editorial Board Member, Curriculum Inquiry. (2014 - present)

Research outputs

  • Books (authored/edited/special issues)

    de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N., Coles, A. (2017) What is a mathematical concept?.

    de Freitas, E., Walshaw, M. (2016) Alternative theoretical frameworks for mathematics education research: Theory meets data.

    de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N. (2014) Mathematics and the Body. Cambridge University Press.

    Freitas, E.D., Nolan, K. (2007) Opening the Research Text Critical Insights and In(ter)ventions into Mathematics Education. Springer Science & Business Media.

  • Chapters in books

    de Freitas, E. (2019) 'Digital research methods and sensor technologies: Rethinking the temporality of digital life.' Practice Methodologies in Education Research. Routledge,

    de Freitas, E. (2017) 'The material labour of artful mathematics.' Anthropology and Beauty: From Aesthetics to Creativity. pp. 36-50.

    de Freitas, E. (2017) 'Digital Mazes and Spatial Reasoning: Using Colour and Movement to Explore the 4th Dimension.' In Faggiano, E., Ferrara, F., Montone, A. (ed.) Innovation and technology enhancement in mathematics education. Springer Verlag, pp. 237-257.

    de Freitas, E. (2017) 'What were you thinking? A deleuzian/guattarian analysis of communication in the mathematics classroom.' Contesting Governing Ideologies: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader on Neoliberalism. pp. 88-103.

    de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N. (2017) 'Concepts as generative devices.' What is a Mathematical Concept?. pp. 76-89.

    de Freitas, E., Lerman, S., Noelle-Parks, A. (2017) 'Qualitative methods..' In Cai, J. (ed.) Compendium for Research in Mathematics Education. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, pp. 159-182.

    de Freitas, E. (2017) 'New empiricisms and the moving image: Rethinking video research in education..' M. Koro-Ljungberg, T. Löytönen, M. Tesar (Eds.). Data encounters. Peter Lang Publishing.. Peter Lang Publishing,

    de Freitas, E. (2017) 'Pre-service teachers using core philosophical questions to analyze mathematical behavior..' In Gold, B. (ed.) Teaching the philosophy of mathematics. Mathematics Association of America. Mathematics Association of America, pp. 313-330.

    de Freitas, E. (2017) 'Deleuze, ontology and mathematics.' Peters M. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer Verlag,

    De Freitas, E. (2013) 'Mapping the materiality of classroom discourse expression and content in school mathematics.' Cartographies of Becoming in Education: A Deleuze-Guattari Perspective. pp. 127-140.

    de Freitas, E. (2011) 'The emotional labor of imagining otherwise: Undoing the mastery model of mathematics teacher identity.' Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches. pp. 174-185.

  • Journal articles

    de Freitas, E., Truman, S. (2020) 'New empiricisms in the Anthropocene: thinking with speculative fiction about science and social inquiry.' Qualitative Inquiry, 27(5) pp. 522-533.

    de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N. (2020) 'Measurement as relational, intensive and inclusive: towards a ‘minor’ mathematics.' The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 59pp. 100796-100796.

    de Freitas, E. (2019) 'Science studies and the metamorphic multiple earth: Bruno Latour's risky diplomacy.' Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 20(3) pp. 203-212.

    Sinclair, N., de Freitas, E. (2019) 'Body studies in mathematics education: diverse scales of mattering.' ZDM - Mathematics Education, 51(2) pp. 227-237.

    de Freitas, E., Ferrara, F., Ferrari, G. (2018) 'The coordinated movements of collaborative mathematical tasks: the role of affect in transindividual sympathy.' ZDM - Mathematics Education, 51(2) pp. 305-318.

    de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N. (2018) 'The Quantum Mind: Alternative Ways of Reasoning with Uncertainty.' Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 18(3) pp. 271-283.

    de Freitas, E., Sellar, S., Bang Jensen, L. (2018) 'Thinking with Spinoza about education.' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(9) pp. 805-808.

    de Freitas, E. (2018) 'The mathematical continuum: A haunting problematic.' Mathematics Enthusiast, 15(1-2) pp. 148-158.

    de Freitas, E. (2017) 'The biosocial subject: sensor technologies and worldly sensibility.' Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 39(2) pp. 292-308.

    de Freitas, E. (2017) 'Karen Barad’s Quantum Ontology and Posthuman Ethics: Rethinking the Concept of Relationality.' Qualitative Inquiry, 23(9) pp. 741-748.

    De Freitas, E. (2017) 'The temporal fabric of research methods: Posthuman social science and the digital data deluge.' Research in Education, 98(1) pp. 27-43.

    De Freitas, E. (2017) 'Nonhuman findings from the laboratory of speculative sociology.' The Minnesota Review, 2017(88) pp. 116-126.

    de Freitas, E., Palmer, A. (2016) 'How scientific concepts come to matter in early childhood curriculum: rethinking the concept of force.' Cultural Studies of Science Education, 11(4) pp. 1201-1222.

    De Freitas, E. (2016) 'Calculating Matter and Recombinant Subjects: The Infinitesimal and the Fractal Fold.' Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 16(5) pp. 462-470.

    De Freitas, E., Dixon-Román, E., Lather, P. (2016) 'Alternative Ontologies of Number: Rethinking the Quantitative in Computational Culture.' Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 16(5) pp. 431-434.

    de Freitas, E. (2016) 'Number sense and the calculating child: Measure, multiplicity and mathematical monsters.' Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37(5) pp. 650-661.

    De Freitas, E. (2016) 'The new empiricism of the fractal fold: Rethinking monadology in digital times.' Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 16(2) pp. 224-234.

    de Freitas, E. (2016) 'Material encounters and media events: what kind of mathematics can a body do?.' Educational Studies in Mathematics, 91(2) pp. 185-202.

    de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N. (2015) 'The cognitive labour of mathematics dis/ability: Neurocognitive approaches to number sense.' International Journal of Educational Research, 79pp. 222-230.

    Daugbjerg, P.S., de Freitas, E., Valero, P. (2015) 'Mapping the entangled ontology of science teachers’ lived experience.' Cultural Studies of Science Education, 10(3) pp. 777-801.

    de Freitas, E. (2015) 'The moving image in education research: reassembling the body in classroom video data.' International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29(4) pp. 553-572.

    de Freitas, E., Curinga, M.X. (2015) 'New materialist approaches to the study of language and identity: Assembling the posthuman subject.' Curriculum Inquiry, 45(3) pp. 249-265.

    de Freitas, E., Ferrara, F. (2014) 'Movement, Memory and Mathematics: Henri Bergson and the Ontology of Learning.' Studies in Philosophy and Education, 34(6) pp. 565-585.

    de Freitas, E., Zolkower, B. (2014) 'Tense and aspect in word problems about motion: diagram, gesture, and the felt experience of time.' Mathematics Education Research Journal, 27(3) pp. 311-330.

    Sinclair, N., De Freitas, E. (2014) 'The haptic nature of gesture: Rethinking gesture with new multitouch digital technologies.' Gesture, 14(3) pp. 351-374.

    De Freitas, E. (2014) 'How theories of perception deploy the line: Reconfiguring students' bodies through topo-philosophy.' Educational Theory, 64(3) pp. 285-301.

    de Freitas, E. (2013) 'The Mathematical Event: Mapping the Axiomatic and the Problematic in School Mathematics.' Studies in Philosophy and Education, 32(6) pp. 581-599.

    Sinclair, N., de Freitas, E., Ferrara, F. (2013) 'Virtual encounters: The murky and furtive world of mathematical inventiveness.' ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education, 45(2) pp. 239-252.

    de Freitas, E. (2013) 'What were you thinking? A Deleuzian/Guattarian analysis of communication in the mathematics classroom.' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45(3) pp. 287-300.

    de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N. (2013) 'New materialist ontologies in mathematics education: The body in/of mathematics.' Educational Studies in Mathematics, 83(3) pp. 453-470.

    De Freitas, E., Bentley, S.J. (2012) 'Material encounters with mathematics: The case for museum based cross-curricular integration.' International Journal of Educational Research, 55pp. 36-47.

    de Freitas, E. (2012) 'The Classroom as Rhizome: New Strategies for Diagramming Knotted Interactions.' American Journal of Men's Health, 6(5) pp. 557-570.

    de Freitas, E. (2012) 'The Classroom as Rhizome: New Strategies for Diagramming Knotted Interactions.' Qualitative Inquiry, 18(7) pp. 557-570.

    De Freitas, E. (2012) 'The diagram as story: Unfolding the event-structure of the mathematical diagram.' For the Learning of Mathematics, 32(2) pp. 27-33.

    de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N. (2012) 'Diagram, gesture, agency: Theorizing embodiment in the mathematics classroom.' Educational Studies in Mathematics, 80(1-2) pp. 133-152.

    de Freitas, E., Wagner, D., Esmonde, I., Knipping, C., Lunney Borden, L., Reid, D. (2012) 'Discursive Authority and Sociocultural Positioning in the Mathematics Classroom: New Directions for Teacher Professional Development.' Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 12(2) pp. 137-159.

    de Freitas, E., Zolkower, B. (2011) 'Developing teacher capacity to explore non-routine problems through a focus on the social semiotics of mathematics classroom discourse.' Research in Mathematics Education, 13(3) pp. 229-247.

    de Freitas, E., Zolkower, B. (2009) 'Using social semiotics to prepare mathematics teachers to teach for social justice.' Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 12(3) pp. 187-203.

    de Freitas, E., Paton, J. (2009) '(De)facing the Self: Poststructural disruptions of the autoethnographic text.' Qualitative Inquiry, 15(3) pp. 483-498.

    de Freitas, E., McAuley, A. (2008) 'Teaching for diversity by troubling whiteness: Strategies for classrooms in isolated white communities.' Race Ethnicity and Education, 11(4) pp. 429-442.

    De Freitas, E. (2008) 'Mathematics and its other: (Dis)locating the feminine.' Gender and Education, 20(3) pp. 281-290.

    de Freitas, E. (2008) 'Troubling teacher identity: Preparing mathematics teachers to teach for diversity.' Teaching Education, 19(1) pp. 43-55.

    De Freitas, E. (2007) 'Research fictions: Arts-informed narratives that disrupt the authority of the text.' Interchange, 38(4) pp. 335-350.

    Kooy, M., De Freitas, E. (2007) 'The diaspora sensibility in teacher identity: Locating self through story.' Canadian Journal of Education, 30(3) pp. 865-880.

    Giles, J., Ryan, D.A.J., Belliveau, G., de Freitas, E., Casey, R. (2006) 'Teaching style and learning in a quantitative classroom.' Active Learning in Higher Education, 7(3) pp. 213-225.

    De Freitas, E. (2005) 'Pre-Service Teachers and the Reinscription of Whiteness: Disrupting dominant cultural codes through textual analysis.' Teaching Education, 16(2) pp. 151-164.

    De Freitas, E. (2004) 'Plotting intersections along the political axis: The interior voice of dissenting mathematics teachers.' Educational Studies in Mathematics, 55(1-3) pp. 259-274.

  • Conference papers

    Nemirovsky, R., de Freitas, E., O brien, K., Kelton, M.L., Ma, J.Y., Ferrara, F., Ferrari, G., Hall, R., Vogelstein, L., Sinclair, N. (2018) 'Video data and the learning event: Four case studies.' 2. pp. 1195-1202.