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About this book
The present book is the result of the reflection of many individuals in mathematics education on this and related questions. Is mathematics education a science? Is it a discipline? In what sense? What is its place within other domains of research and academic disciplines? What accounts for its specificity? In the book, the reader will find a range of possible answers to these questions, a variety of analyses of the actual directions of research in different countries, and a number of visions for the future of research in mathematics education.
The book is a result of an ICMI Study, whose theme was formulated as: `What is Research in Mathematics Education and What are Its Results?'. One important outcome of this study was the realization of the reasons for the difficulty of the questions that the study was posing, leading possibly to a set of other questions, better suited to the actual concerns and research practices of mathematics education researchers.
The book addresses itself to researchers in mathematics education and all those working in their neighborhood who are concerned with the problems of the definition of this new scientific domain emerging at their borders.
Editors and Affiliations
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Concordia University Dept. Mathematics & Statistics, Montreal, Canada
Anna Sierpinska
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University of Georgia Dept. Mathematics Education, Athens, USA
Jeremy Kilpatrick
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity
Book Subtitle: An ICMI Study
Editors: Anna Sierpinska, Jeremy Kilpatrick
Series Title: New ICMI Study Series
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4599-2Published: 31 January 1998
Series ISSN: 1387-6872
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1745
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 578