From P.Ernest at exeter.ac.uk Wed Jun 25 17:52:07 2025 From: P.Ernest at exeter.ac.uk (Ernest, Paul) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:52:07 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] Remembering Roberto Baldino In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: PLEASE FORWARD TO COLLEAGUES Dear Colleagues, This has been a difficult year with the loss of several important and wonderful mathematics educationist colleagues. We have just lost dear Roberto Ribeiro Baldino who maintained his professional and political integrity and activity to the end. Sadly we also lost Ole Skovsmose and Julian Williams earlier this year. In the Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal No. 42 (January 2025), proudly dedicated to Ole Skovsmose before his death, we also carried one of Roberto's (The Cabraldino's) most recent publications Roberto Ribeiro Baldino and T?nia Cristina Baptista Cabral Hegel?s dialectics as an invitation to class struggle in mathematics See https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/pmej/pome42/ Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal 42 Aim of the Journal The aim is to foster awareness of philosophical aspects of mathematics education and mathematics, understood broadly to include most kinds of theoretical reflection and research in mathematics education; to freely disseminate new thinking and to encourage informal communication, dialogue and international co-operation between teachers, scholars, researchers and others ... sites.exeter.ac.uk Over the course of the year Roberto participated with a dozen others in A Dialogue on Dialectics which is now complete and will be published in Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal No. 43 (Target publication date November 2025). Julian Williams was also part of this dialogue. Roberto made his last contributions to this dialogue on 1 June 2025, so he was still very active this month fighting the good (intellectual) fight to the end. He was a tireless campaigner for justice for the oppressed, and for shining a light on some of the atrocities being committed around us. We will deeply miss his committed scholarship, his very productive partnership with Tania Cabral in research and life, his forthright and heartfelt contributions. His radical communications sometimes shocked us, but he remained true to his mission of opening all our eyes to injustices that we sometimes unknowingly and ignorantly support. Farewell Roberto, master, guide, colleague, conscience, who contributed both from your intellect and your heart. We miss you, irreplaceable you, and will remember your generous heart, penetrating intellect and dauntless spirit. Paul Ernest _________ Paul Ernest Emeritus Professor, Education, Exeter University, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK Homepage https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/pmej/ for The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal. No. 42 (Jan. 2025) out now P. Ernest (2024) The Ethics of Authority and Control in Mathematics Education: From Naked Power to Hidden Ideology. In P. Ernest, Ed. (2024) Ethics and Mathematics Education The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Springer. P. Ernest (2023). The Problems of Necessity and Authority in Mathematics and Education. Journal for Theoretical & Marginal Mathematics Education, Vol. 2, No. 1 (https://www.cppi.me/journal) Launch of Ole Skovsmose's book Critical Philosophy of Mathematics (Springer, 2024) and Commemoration of Ole on ????Friday 2 May 2025 1630 CET: To view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbRXWjGqbgI&t=734s