Harita Raval's 90 percent seminar: What becomes noticeable? Systems of noticing in transition among pre-service mathematical teachers from India and Sweden
Harita Raval examines in her thesis how pre-service mathematics teachers notice in India and Sweden. She argues that what becomes noticeable depends on the discourses a teacher is familiar with, and traces how this configuration changes when unfamiliar discourses are encountered.
Harita Raval. Photo: Private.
Harita Raval’s thesis asks what becomes noticeable for pre-service mathematics teachers, and how, what becomes noticeable changes across contexts and over time. It examines how familiar and unfamiliar mathematical, pedagogical, and cultural discourses shape what PSTs notice in India and Sweden. It introduces the system of noticing as an analytical construct: the configuration of familiar and unfamiliar discourses through which classroom phenomena become salient and meaningful. It traces how a system of noticing changes over time when a PST moves between educational systems. The thesis is a compilation of two empirical studies and a conceptual paper, and it contributes an explanatory account of noticing rather than a descriptive one.
The thesis is a comparative multi-case study drawing on qualitative data from India and Sweden. Data include focus-group interviews with PSTs in both countries, classroom observations, video-stimulated recall, and post-lesson interviews. The analysis uses Critical Discourse Analysis within a Critical Realist paradigm, applying thematic analysis to identify markers of familiar and unfamiliar discourse. Coding is based on the three domains of mathematical, pedagogical, and cultural discourse, and the analytical procedure is described in the draft of the thesis.
The thesis is a compilation of five works, organised into two studies and a conceptual paper:
Study 1:
Study 2:
Paper III. Raval, H. P. (submitted). Noticing in transition: A longitudinal case study of a Chinese pre-service teacher in Sweden. Teaching and Teacher Education.
Paper IV. Raval, H. P., & Österling, L. (in progress). When noticing travels: Familiar and unfamiliar discourses in a cross-cultural pre-service mathematics teacher's practice. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.
Conceptual Paper:
Raval, H. P. (submitted, under revision). Beyond the cognitive lens: A cultural and historical exploration of noticing in mathematics education. Nordic Studies in Mathematics Education.
If you would like to read Harita’s dissertation text beforehand, you can contact her at harita.raval@su.se
Seminar participants
Role | Name |
|---|---|
External reader | Assoc Prof Choy Ban Heng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Supervisors | Lisa Österling and Eva Noren, Stockholm University |
PhD student |
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Last updated: 2026-10-28
Source: Department of Teaching and Learning