BA (Hons), PhD (Macq)

Lecturer
Academic area: Community and Experiential Learning

Telephone: +61 2 9514 3478
Email: Keiko.Yasukawa@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.5.542
Campus: City - CB10 Building

Keiko is the Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Education in Adult Education course at the University of Technology Sydney. One of her areas of subject expertise is adult numeracy. She is a member of the Centre for Popular Education and the Centre for Language and Literacy in the Faculty.

During 2004 – 2005, Keiko Yasukawa has been involved in a community based research project (with Jacquie Widin, Jennifer Newman, Heidi Norman, Andrew Chodkiewicz, Anne Ndaba and others) funded by the Telstra Community Development Funding scheme on developing school community partnerships in an Indigenous school community in Sydney. This project builds on a number of partnership programs that UTS has been involved in with this school, including a family – school financial literacy education partnership program completed prior to this project.

Earlier, Keiko was part of the UTS project team (with Andrew Chodkiewicz, Betty Johnston and Sallie Saunders) for a YWCA EvenStart Project on Personal Financial Literacy Education for parents of socio-economically disadvantaged communities. The Even Start program provided support for parents of primary school children in that community who were participating in a financial literacy program called MakingCents; this project was conceived as a family - school partnership program to promote financial literacy in socio-economically disadvantaged communities. This project was completed, piloted and independently evaluated.

During 2002, she was involved (Andrew Chodkiewicz and Betty Johnston) in a project funded by the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Research Consortium (ALNARC) on older adult's financial numeracy needs and practices. Prior to this, she) was part of a research team from the Centre for Popular Education,  involved in a commissioned research project for the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) to undertake a literature review on Consumer Education.

In 2001, she was part of a UTS team of researchers (Sabdy Schuck, Betty Johnston, Gerry Foley and Grham Barnseley) in a NSW Department of Education & Training project on Numeracy Research in NSW Primary Schools Project. This involved interviews and focus groups with teachers, parents, students, and principals as well as classroom observations to investigate school, family and community influences on children's numeracy development.

Keiko has also been collaborating with Ole Skovsmose at Aalborg University, Denmark, in an ongoing project onconceptualizing a framework for the social theorizing of mathematics.

Research Areas:

CONSULTANCIES and RESEARCH PROJECTS

2003 (ongoing) TELSTRA Foundation funder project on community learning and development for an Indigenous school community

2004 NTEU experiences of casual uniervsity academics

2004 YWCA/ Citigroup curriculum development project on financial literacy

2003 ALNARC Research on financial numeracy of older adults

2001 ASIC Consumer education literacture search and review

1996 ALBSAC Workplace numeracy project

1994 - 1995  Contributing writer - Adult Numeracy Teaching a course development project for National Staff Development Committee for Vocational Education & Training.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 

NSW Council for Adult Literacy and Numeracy Council – Executive member, 2002 - 2005

NSW Council of the Ageing – Member, Adult Learning Working Group

National Tertiary Education Union – NSW State Vice-President (Academic) and Branch Vice-President (Academic) 2004 – current; Branch President, University of Technology, 2000 – 2004

Publications:

(a) BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

S. Kelly, B. Johnston & K. Yasukawa (eds) (2003) The Adult Numeracy Handbook: Refraning adult numeracy in Australia, NSWALNARC and Language Australia.

K. Yasukawa (2003) Towards a social studies of mathematics: numeracy and actor-network theory, in S. Kelly, B. Johnston & K. Yasukawa (eds) (2003) The Adult Numeracy Handbook: Refraning adult numeracy in Australia, NSWALNARC and Language Australia, pp 99-107.

B. Johnston & K. Yasukawa (2000) Numeracy: negotiating the world through mathematics, in W. Atweh et al (Eds) Sociocultural Research on Mathematics Education: An International Perspective, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum.

K. Yasukawa (1997) Challenging Myths about Mathematics Learning and Teaching, in R Ballantyne and J Packer (Eds) Reflecting on University Teaching: Academics’ Stories. AGPS. pp299-309.

• REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

P. Bryce, S. Johnston & K. Yasukawa (2004) Implementing a program in sustainability for engineers at University of Technology, Sydney: a story of intersecting agendas. Sustainability in Higher Education. Vol 5 No. 3, 267 – 277.

B. Johnston & K. Yasukawa (1998) Editorial. Literacy and Numeracy Studies. Vol 8 No 1, pp 1-6.

K. Yasukawa (1998) Prologue. Literacy and Numeracy Studies. Vol 8 No 1, p7.

K Yasukawa (1995) Teaching critical mathematics: Some reflections from a teacher. Numeracy in Focus. Adult Literacy Information Office, NSW, No 1, January 1995, pp 38 - 42.

• PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS, REPORTS AND NON-REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES

K. Yasukawa (2005) Education for sustainable development: Implications for mathematics education? Mathematics Education and Society – 4th  internationational conference, Griffiths University, Queensland, 2 – 6 July, 2005.

O. Skovsmose & K. Yasukawa (2004) Formatting power of ‘mathematics in a package’: A challenge for social theorising? Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal. (http://www.ex.ac.uk/~PErnest/pome18/contents.htm)

J. Widin, H. Norman, A. Ndaba, K. Yasukawa (2004) An Indigigenous Learning Centre to Promote a Culture of Learning, The 44th annual national conference of Adult Learning Australia 18-20 November, 2004, Adelaide

K. Yasukawa (2002) Mathematics and Technological Literacy, Mathematics Education and Society – 3rd  internationational conferenceHelsingor, Denmark from 2nd - 7th April, 2002. (invited keynote paper)

O. Skovsmose & K. Yasukawa (2000) Formatting power of mathematics - a case study and questions for mathematics education, Mathematics Education and Society – 2nd internationational conference Montechoro, Algarve, Portugal from 26th - 31st March, 2000 (paper presented by O Skovsmose)

K. Yasukawa et al (1999) The Engineering Learning & Design Centres: creating an environment for learning, 11th Annual Conference and Convention of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. University of South Australia, Adelaide  26-29 September (paper presetned by S Johnston)

K. Yasukawa (1998) Changing the Culture of Engineering Education: Implications for Educational Development, 100th Anniversary Jubilee Conference on Engineering Education. Fachholchschule - Mannheim, Germany, 17-19 September.

K Yasukawa (1998) Looking at mathematics as technology: implications for numeracy. Mathematics Education and Society - An internationational conference. Centre for the Study of Mathematics Education, University of Nottingham, 6-11 September.

PJ Parr, KW Yates & K Yasukawa (1997) The UTS response to the review of engineering education,Proceedings of the 9th Annual Convention and Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. University of Ballarat, Victoria 14-17 December, 1997.

K. Yasukawa (1997) Literacy Needs for Engineering Numeracy, in Z Golebiowski & H Boland (Eds) Academic Communication across Disciplines and Cultures: Selected Proceedings of the First National Conference on Tertiary Literacy: Research and Practice. Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, pp 284-293.

K Yasukawa, B Johnston, & KW Yates (1995) Numeracy as a Critical Constructivist Awareness of Maths - Case Studies from Engineering and Adult Basic Education, Proceedings of the ICMI Regional Collaboration in Mathematics Education Conference. Monash University, Melbourne 19 - 23 April, pp 815-826.

K Yasukawa & KW Yates (1994) Problem Posing Pedagogy for Engineering Maths? or Reorienting a Sacred Site. Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference. University of Technology, Sydney 12 - 14 December, pp 119-124.

K Yasukawa & KW Yates (1994) Remodelling Mathematics in Engineering Education. Proceedings of Teaching Science for Technology at Tertiary Level, Stockholm 6-9 June, 1994, pp 133-142.

K Yasukawa & B Johnston (1994) A Numeracy Manifesto for Engineers, Primary Teachers, Historians ... A Civil Society - Can We Call it Theory?, Proceedings of the Australian Bridging Mathematics Network Conference, University of Sydney 10 - 12 July, pp 191 - 199.

(d) OTHER PUBLISHED MATERIAL

K. Yasukawa (1999) Numeracy: What’s Basic?, Education Links. No 59, pp31-33.

• Yasukawa (1999) The Language of Human Resources, Education Links. No 58, p28.

P. Healy & K. Yasukawa (1999) Union reps as activists?, Education Links. No 58, pp 29-31.

K Yasukawa (1995) What does it mean to be radical in the 1990s - Reclaiming the language and being unfashionable?, Education Links. No 50, pp 14 - 15.