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ICMI Renaissance: The emergence of new issues in mathematics education
No full textTwo facts mark the emerging of the new status of mathematics education as a scientific discipline: the inauguration in 1969 of the tradition of International Congresses on Mathematical Education (ICMEs), and the contemporary launch of journals related to mathematics education research. The early ICMEs acted as catalysts for new ideas that have their roots in important events that took place in the 1950s and 1960s. As a consequence new issues found their place in the international discussion on mathematics education and opened new lines of research and forms of action inside ICMI, so that we may talk about a genuine ICMI Renaissance. In our contribution we examine the background and circumstances that fostered and shaped the emergence of the new issues that have developed in mathematics education up to the present day
The first century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. Reflecting and shaping the world of mathematics education
No full textThe volume contains the proceedings of the Symposium held in Rome on March 5th -8th 2008 at Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and l’Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana to celebrate the centennial of the ICMI (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction). The volume represents an important contribution to the discussion on mathematics education: starting out from a historical analysis of the principal themes regarding the activities of the ICMI (curricular overviews, teacher training, relations with mathematical research and applications, and so on), the future directions of research in mathematics education are identified together with the concrete action to be taken in the various countries
Researching the history of mathematics education. An international overview
No full textThe book contains the selected papers presented at the ICME-13 Conference (Hamburg 2016
Celebrating the first century of ICMI (1908-2008) Some aspects of the history of ICMI
No full textIn this paper we report on the events in 2008 that commemorated the Centennial of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. This celebration offered the occasion to look back at the history of ICMI and outline the evolution of mathematics education until it achieved its present status as an academic discipline. The years after WWII up to the late 1960s were crucial in this evolution for both the settlement of some institutional aspects (mainly concerning the relationship with mathematicians) and the establishment of new trends of the activities. In this paper we outline – on the basis of unpublished documents - the role of two important figures in those years: Heinrich Behnke and Hans Freudenthal. First as secretary and later as president, Behnke faced the difficult task of reshaping the newborn ICMI after WWII and clarifying the relationship with mathematicians. His mission was completed by Freudenthal, who, as president of ICMI, definitively broke with the past and promoted important initiatives that fostered the emergence of mathematics education as an academic field
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
"Dig where you stand" 4 : Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education
No full textThe volume is a collection of chapters dealing with different aspects of history of mathematics education in various countrie
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