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Research, Effectiveness, and the Practitioners’ World

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Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity

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The ICMI Study Conference on Research was a watershed event with a great deal of significant interaction between the participants. It was an energizing and involving experience, but as one of my tasks was to’ summarize’ at the end of the conference, I tried to take a more objective stance during my involvement. I reported in my summary that I could detect certain emphases in the discourses together with some important silences.

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  1. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia

    Alan J. Bishop (Faculty of Education)

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  1. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Anna Sierpinska

  2. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

    Jeremy Kilpatrick

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Bishop, A.J. (1998). Research, Effectiveness, and the Practitioners’ World. In: Sierpinska, A., Kilpatrick, J. (eds) Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity. New ICMI Studies Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5470-3_2

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