The historical analysis of mathematics teaching at secondary level shows the succession in
time of different school paradigms. The present paper describes and tries to analyse a new …

This talk will centre on a number of inadequacies that beset mathematics education in
present-day societies. In the author's view, the basic obstacles lie in–or can be expressed in …

This chapter attempts to analyse the justification and the goals of mathematics education
from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Methodological issues related to the …

The Theory of Objectification: A Vygotskian Perspective on Knowing and Becoming in
Mathematics Teaching and Learning presents a new educational theory in which learning is …

" Since knowing produces knowledge, and not the other way around, this book shows how
everyone can be a producer rather than a consumer of mathematical knowledge …

For over 20 years, I have been trying to teach elementary school mathematics in ways that
honor and are rooted in concerns for the integrity of mathematics as a discipline and that …

It has long been an aim of mine that school students should be introduced to authentic
mathematical activity such as is practised by professional mathematicians, and those forms …

This ICME-13 Topical Survey is designed to provide an overview of contemporary research
in the philosophy of mathematics education. This is a broad cluster of overlapping but at …

As one of the so-called basic skills,'mathematics' or'numeracy'is at the top of the list of
subjects in adult education programmes. Together with political investment in general and …

Teaching and learning mathematics in school involve different aspects of the relationship
between mathematics and culture such as:--the problem concerning how the teacher can …