[Maths-Education] WG10 CERME7
Peter Gates
Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk
Sun Mar 14 12:45:37 GMT 2010
CERME7: Working Group 10
Diversity and Mathematics Education: Social, Cultural and Political
Challenges/Issues
Leaders
Paola Valero (Denmark) paola at learning.aau.dk <mailto:paola at learning.aau.dk>
Sarah Crafter (UK), Uwe Gellert (Germany), and Núria Gorgorió (Spain)
Scope and Focus of WG10
The group is interested in discussing /research/ that addresses how
/diversity/ impacts /possibilities for practice/ in mathematics
education. The three elements highlighted are understood as follows:
1. By /diversity/ we understand the fact that students, teachers,
parents and many other participants in mathematics education, as well as
the contexts where mathematics education takes place, are becoming more
complex and varied. Diversity might be expressed in terms such as
gender, ethnicity, language, social and socio-economic status,
disability, qualification, life opportunities, aspirations and career
possibilities, etc. Contexts are diverse in terms of the variety of
sites where mathematics education takes place, and the differences in
the organization and structure of practice in such contexts -schools,
homes, workplaces, etc.
2. By /possibilities of practice/ we understand that, in most concrete
situations of mathematics education, the multiple diversities mentioned
above intersect, posing challenges to actual learning and teaching
practices, as well as to their improvement.
3. Finally, when talking about /research/, we focus our understanding in
the systematic reflection, of either empirical or theoretical nature, on
the ways in which diversity affects possibilities of mathematics
education practice. We narrow to research using inter-disciplinary
perspectives including fields such as socio-cultural and discursive
psychology, education, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, political
sciences, and philosophy.
Call for papers and poster proposals
We will be particularly interested in theoretical, methodological,
empirical or developmental papers focusing on the social, cultural and
political challenges/issues of mathematics education.
Notice that the enlarged focus of the group (in relation to previous
CERME's) means that cultural diversity is only one of the possible focus
for the current conference. We invite researchers who particularly work
with sociological, anthropological, discursive, political and
philosophical perspectives to read mathematics education practices, to
consider submitting to this group.
Papers should use the CERME7 WORD template, and conform to the
guidelines at _www.xyz.etc <http://www.xyz.etc>_. To submit it, you must
email your paper as a WORD document to Paola Valero at
paola at learning.aau.dk AND at the same time to the conference secretariat
at _cerme7 at xyz.etc <mailto:cerme7 at xyz.etc>. _If possible please also
send a pdf version /in addition/ to the WORD document.
Reviews and Decisions
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by two reviewers, as far as
possible chosen among other contributors to the group or from the group
participants. The process will NOT be blind review, and it is intended
to be supportive, since the spirit of the working group should be as
democratic and inclusive as possible. If you submit a paper to WG 10,
you are likely to be asked to review one or more papers.
Important dates
15^th September 2010: Deadline for submission of papers.
1st October 2010: Deadline for submission of poster proposals
22^nd October 2010: Deadline for reviewers to submit their reviews.
1st December 2010: Deadline for revisions to papers.
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