In this contribution, we consider the potential offered by the anthropological theory of the
didactic (ATD) for addressing the issue of networking between theories through the …

Value judgments, prescriptions and proscriptions concerning instructional proposals seem
to be very frequent in works in Didactics (papers, communications,…). In this paper we …

The question tackled here centres on the notion—or, more precisely, the many notions—of
theory often used in discussing scientific matters. The analysis that we attempt develops …

Many tests were seen as focusing too narrowly on routine procedures and factual
knowledge, whilst paying far too little attention to conceptual understanding, problem …

The chapter briefly introduces the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD) by referring
to the data from Chap. 2. ATD provides a frame for investigating mathematical and didactic …

Acknowledging the complex relationships which the field of didactics of mathematics has
with other research fields (eg mathematics, educational sciences, epistemology, history …

In a paper presented to the Twenty-second Annual Meeting of German Mathematics
Educators in 1988 Heinrich Bauersfeld presented some views on the perspectives and …

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 …

This entry encompasses two interrelated though distinct approaches to mathematics
education: the anthropological theory of the didactic (ATD for short) and the joint action …

In the ICMI study Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: a Search for Identity
(Sierpinska and Kilpatrick, 1998), an eclectic point of view is adopted in terms of both the …