Brent Davis is Professor and Distinguished Research Chair in Mathematics Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. Prior to his appointment at the U of C in January, 2010, he held positions at the University of British Columbia (David Robitalle Chair in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2006-2009, and 1994-1997), the University of Alberta (Canada Research Chair in Mathematics Education and the Ecologies of Learning, 2001-2006), and York University in Toronto (1997-2001). He completed his PhD in mathematics education and curriculum studies at the University of Alberta in 1994, under the supervision of Thomas E. Kieren. Through the 1980s, before undertaking graduate studies, he was a classroom teacher in northern Alberta, specializing in middle school mathematics.

Dr. Davis teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level that are developed around the educational relevance of recent developments in the cognitive and complexity sciences. A sense of the conceptual influences and emphases in these courses might be gleaned from the http://www.complexityandeducation.ualberta.ca/, ,aspects of which were developed in courses taught by Davis.

Dr. Davis is the author of two books on pedagogy and co-author of three books on learning, teaching, and research. He has authored and co-authored many articles in the areas of mathematics learning and teaching, curriculum theory, teacher education, and action research.

Dr. Davis is also very active as an editor. He has edited or co-edited seven books of proceedings as well as a book celebrating the work of John Mason in mathematics education. He has served as editor of For the Learning of Mathematics (2008-2010, http://flm.educ.ualberta.ca/), co-editor of JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (1995-1999, http://www.jctonline.org/), and founding co-editor of Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education (2004-2007, http://www.complexityandeducation.ualberta.ca/journal.htm).