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Michèle Artigue
Emeritus Professor
Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7
Title: Mathematics education as a multicultural field of research and practice:
Outcomes and challenges
Abstract
Mathematics education seen both as a field of research and as a field of practice
is a multicultural field. For a while, this essential characteristic of the field
has been underestimated but this is no longer the case. Both theoretical frameworks
and empirical research help us today better approach this phenomenon, understand
its impact on the field, reflect on research outcomes and the value of knowledge
progressively built as well as on the challenges that we globally face as a community.
In this lecture I would like to share with the audience my vision of this evolution
and of the potential it offers for the field of mathematics education, relying on
my personal experience as a researcher raised in a specific culture but also involved
in many international collaborations, and on my engagement in ICMI, the International
Commission on Mathematical Instruction, an institution which, for more than one
century, has tried to contribute to the development of mathematics education through
international exchanges and collaboration.
Biodata
After her academic studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Michèle Artigue
was recruited at the Mathematics Department of the University Paris 7 and got a
PhD in mathematical logic in 1972. Progressively, she entered the field of mathematics
education, thanks to her involvement in the research activities, innovation and
teacher professional development at the Institute of Research in Mathematics Education
(IREM), created in 1969 at the University Paris 7. With two other colleagues, she
was in charge of organizing mathematics education in an experimental elementary
school for several years, then was involved in an experimental course for undergraduate
students jointly with physicists, from which emerged her interest for the didactics
of Calculus and Analysis. In 1991, she moved to the newly created IUFM (University
Institute for Teacher Education) in Reims where she became full professor, in charge
of the mathematics department and was involved in the pre-service preparation of
secondary mathematics teachers and mathematics and physics teachers for vocational
education. In 1999, she came back to the mathematics department of the University
Paris 7, taking the direction of the IREM, then the direction of the Master program
“Didactique des disciplines” and of the Doctorate School : “Savoirs scientifiques
: épistémologie, histoire des sciences, didactique des disciplines”. Since September
2010, she is Emeritus Professor at this university. Beyond theoretical contributions
on the relationships between epistemology and didactics, didactical engineering,
the reproducibility of didactic situations, the instrumental approach, and more
recently the networking of theoretical frames, her main research areas have been
the teaching and learning of mathematics at university level, and especially the
didactics of Calculus and Analysis, and the integration of computer technologies
into mathematics education. She has many editorial and scientific responsibilities,
and after being from 1998 to 2006 Vice-President of the International Commission
on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI), she became its President in 2007, and is since
January 2010 ex-officio member of the ICMI Executive Committee as past-President.
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