In what is often called the “French didactical culture,” design has always played an essential
role in research. This is attested by the introduction and institutionalization of a specific …

This paper, which results from a lecture given at NORMA08, proposes a reflection on the
idea of didactical design, using the notion of didactical engineering as a specific lens. It is …

The notion of didactical engineering has influenced and characterized contemporary
research in mathematics education in France to an important extent. In this paper, we …

We assume that task design-based research refers to any research that is experimentally
based on an educational context and pays special attention to the description, analysis, and …

In this paper we analyze two approaches to research in mathematics education:" Design-
based research"(DBR) and" Didactic engineering"(DE), in order to study their possible …

Since a long time, long-term teaching projects have been developed in several countries for
improving the learning of mathematics. In the eighties, the concept of didactical engineering …

The aim of this paper is explain how the notion of “study and research course”, a recent
construct in the anthropological theory of didactics, provides a general tool to model …

Abstract Design research continues to gain prominence as a significant methodology in the
mathematics education research community. This overview summarizes the origins and the …

This chapter examines the relation between what the teachers intends to teach in
mathematics, and what the pupils are likely to learn. It describes the school context and the …

Within the German-speaking tradition, considering “mathematics education as a design
science” has been connected to the seminal work by Wittmann. In his famous lecture at …