[Maths-Education] Fwd: Resources Conference

[Peter Gates]

Understanding teachers’ work through their interactions with resources for teaching
The Resources international conference in May 2018 in France, second announcement

The development of the Internet and, as consequences, the abundance of digital resources and the emergence of new forms of collective work, lead to new developments and uncertainties in teaching and learning. These upheavals have given rise to new theoretical needs: how to analyze teachers’ work when they prepare for their teaching? How to conceptualise the relationships between individual and collective work? How to follow the related processes over the long term?

Ten years ago these theoretical and practical needs led to the proposal of a new frame, the documentational approach to didactics, in the field of mathematics education,  This approach has developed in relation to other approaches in the field, in France and internationally (Gueudet, & Trouche, 2009). It has fostered about twenty theses, crossed other theoretical frames throughout the development of research programs at the national level (ANR ReVEA in France for example) or international (European projects such as MC2, projects in Argentina, Brazil, China, Lebanon or Senegal). The initial field, mathematics at secondary school, has been expanded from Kindergarten to University, and to other fields of application: languages, biology, chemistry, physics.

Alongside these developments the approach has been enriched by new concepts (daughters resources - mother resources, meta-resources, disciplinary affinity, documentational incident, documentation expertise or documentational trajectory); the methodology of reflective investigation has developed in several directions, in particular for the analysis of collective forms of documentation work. At the same time new questions have emerged, highlighting the need for new research programs. It is to take stock of these advances and questions that this three-day conference is organized.

This conference will give matter to a book, that will be published in the Springer series Advances in Mathematics Education.

Gueudet, G., & Trouche, L. (2009). Towards new documentation systems for mathematics teachers? Educational Studies in Mathematics, 71(3), 199-218.

Deadline for contributing: October 15th 2017
Conference website: https://resources-2018.sciencesconf.org     Address for contact : resources-2018 at sciencesconf.org<mailto:resources-2018 at sciencesconf.org>