[Maths-Education] International Directory of Mathematics Educators

Paul Andrews pra23 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Oct 27 14:25:58 GMT 2009


Dear Alan

Thanks for updating my record. You may wish to know that Doug French, 
Gill hatch and Paul Marshall died recently and should, I think, be 
removed. There may be others, but those are the two I know best who are 
no longer with us.

Alan Rogerson wrote:
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> Dear Peter and all members of your List,
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> Just a short progress report after two days of looking after the 
> Directory.
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> The webpage is up and running well it seems. Quite a few people have 
> already sent entries, many thanks, and most of these have already been 
> successfully uploaded to both the country and main files, but it would 
> be helpful to double check your new (or old!) entry and let me know if 
> there are any errors and omissions.
>
> In general we hope to upload entries within a day of receipt, except 
> for occasional delays caused by conferences, travel, holidays etc.
>
> I realised that I should have requested everyone to kindly send me 
> their entries in exactly the standard format that we use in the 
> Directory. This is not because of any laziness or pedantry on our 
> part, but there is always a danger with cutting and pasting and 
> formatting that an error may creep into your entry. In addition the 
> entry is and should be "owned" by you.
>
> The standard format in the Directory is all in one line:  [ surname or 
> family name, given name(s), email address, postal address(es), 
> telephone number(s) (and URL(s) if you wish) ]
>
> Please follow this example precisely in its formatting:
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> Gates, Peter, _peter.gates at nottingham.ac.uk_, Centre for the Study of 
> Mathematics Education; School of Education; University of Nottingham; 
> Jubilee Campus; Nottingham NG8 1BB; UK; (+44) (0) 115 951 4432; Fax: 
> (+44) (0) 115 846 6600; 
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/staff/pgates/htm
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> Please also make it clear if you are updating an exisiting entry or 
> sending a new one, and let us know if you have information if someone 
> else is no longer in University X or in Country X, this information 
> can be added as a note to the relevant entry and hopefully the person 
> concerned will update their entry.
>
> Looking forward to getting more entries, and thanks to all of you for 
> your patience and cooperation.
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> Best wishes,
> Alan
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>>
>> International Directory of Mathematics Educators As many of you know 
>> I created and maintained for many years a very
>> useful International Directory of Mathematics Educators to help
>> mathematics educators keep in touch and know who was working in various
>> countries throughout the world. The Directory consists of one Main File,
>> containing all individual names in alphabetical order, and also files
>> listing  individuals country by country.  You will also know I was
>> looking for someone to take this over and develop it.
>>
>> Alan Rogerson has helpfully taken this on and The Directory has now
>> moved to a new home http://www.DirectoryMathsEd.net/  where it will be
>> maintained and updated in future by Alan.
>>
>> If you would like to be included in The Directory please send your name,
>> address, phone number(s) and email address to Alan at
>> alan at rogerson.pol.pl.  If you are already on the list would you be kind
>> enough now to verify that all your details are currently correct and
>> your email addresses and URLs actually work, and if not could you send
>> Alan the updated versions? Quite a few of the entries are quite old now
>> and some of you might well have had several promotions since your entry
>> was added!
>>
>> We hope mathematics educators worldwide will continue to access and use
>> the Directory and will find it useful.
>>
>> My thanks to Alan for this - and good luck. Not only will the directory
>> continue, but with Alan's extensive networks it looks like it will
>> enlarge - which will make it much more useful to everyone.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Peter 
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>> **************** Dr Peter Gates Associate Professor Centre for 
>> Research on Equity and Diversity in Education UNESCO Centre for 
>> Comparative Education Research School of Education The University of 
>> Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB Great Britain Tel: +44 115 951 4432
>> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ 
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Best wishes,
Paul
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