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Dissemination work for Numeracy Network will set out to synthesise the existing and emerging literatures on brain function, with an emphasis on making these findings accessible, yet without over-simplifying the complexities that limit the interpretation of this work.
The Network will provide a much needed forum in which researchers well informed on the relevant literature might have an opportunity to respond to common conceptions and misconceptions concerning educationally relevant insights about brain function and organisation. Such a forum would provide a place for the evidence for and against a particular notion to be presented, along with a discussion of the 'grain of truth' that might have originally led to some misconceptions. Furthermore, such a forum could be yet another venue to link interested readers into relevant summary points and points of existing evidence. The forum will be stimulated by a series of three network-wide meetings (including the entire panel of Network members plus experts that will serve as occasional participants that are most relevant to one particular meeting), the first of which took place in Brockton, Boston from 29 – 31 January 2003. Networking is further augmented by electronic communication between participants, and, by smaller focus-group meetings, the first being a symposium was held on 20 September at INSERM in Paris on the design of rehabilitation software for dyscalculia. These small pair-wise or small team meetings will be specifically designed to bring together two or three researchers and practitioners around a particular problem or issue which might lead to cross-fertilisation across research areas the eventually drive innovations within the field.
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