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Born in 1947, Alan Schoenfeld began his career as a research mathematician. After obtaining his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics in the late sixties, he continued his doctoral study in mathematics at Stanford University, earning a PhD in 1973. He became a lecturer at the University of California at Davis, and later a lecturer and research mathematician in the Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Burkhardt, H., Li, Y. (2013). About Alan H. Schoenfeld and Hiswork. In: Li, Y., Moschkovich, J.N. (eds) Proficiency and Beliefs in Learning and Teaching Mathematics. Mathematics Teaching and Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-299-0_2
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