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Meta-Didactical Transposition is a theoretical framework used to describe mathematics teachers’ professional development as a process, comprising a number of variables and their possible changes over time. It was first introduced in Italy at the National Seminar in Didactics of Mathematics (http://www.seminariodidama.unito.it/mat12.php) and then more widely for the international community (Arzarello et al. 2014). It is based on Chevallard’s Anthropological Theory of Didactics (Chevallard 1985 and Chevallard, this Encyclopedia) and the framework takes into account the relationships and reciprocal influences of two communities – the community of teachers and that of researchers, involved in professional development – with respect to their professional practices.
Meta-Didactical Transposition involves these intertwined features:
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Institutional aspects
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Meta-didactical praxeologies
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The dynamics between internal and external components
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The role of the broker
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Robutti, O. (2020). Meta-didactical Transposition. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_100012
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