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DISCUSSION GROUP AND WORKING SESSION
Group activities are intended to provide attendees with the opportunity to exchange information and ideas related to the PME. Conference participants will need to select which sessions they would prefer to attend and indicate this in their registration. Group activities take place during the parallel time allotments, and have limited space. Proposals for a Discussion Group were submitted to the International program Committee by means of a one-page abstract. The deadline for the submission of DG proposals was March 1st, 2010. The number of the submitted proposals was 11.
Proposals of a DG were reviewed by the members of the IPC. Notifications of the decision of the program Committee were sent by April, 2nd, 2010.
Accepted proposals for a Discussion Group will be included in the conference proceedings, provided the full Conference Fees for both the coordinators and the assistant coordinators are paid before May 17th, 2010.
Two 90-minute sessions will be allocated to Discussion Groups.
Each Discussion Group is required to send a report of its activities to the Administrative Manager ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), so that it can be included in PME News. This report is due by September 20th, 2010.
The accepted Discussion Groups are listed below:
DG1: Reinterpreting previously collected data through activity theory: what are the possible contributions and implications? Jussara Araújo, Manuela David, Mariza Góes, Maria Inês Goulart, Teresinha Kawasaki, Diva Silva, Eduardo Soares and Vanessa Tomaz.
DG2: Mathematics Education and Democracy. Adriana Cesar de Mattos, Marcelo Salles Batarce and Stephen Lerman.
DG3: Crossing the Divide: exploring cross cultural possibilities. Anne D. Cockburn, Haralambos Sakonidis and Marianna Tzekaki
DG4: The learning and development of mathematics teacher educator-researchers Merrilyn Goos, Olive Chapman, Laurinda Brown and Jarmila Novotná.
DG5: Basic Criteria For research in mathematics education 2010. Kathleen Hart
DG6: Using Video to Study teacher learning: The role of the facilitator Karen Koellner and Nanette Seago
DG7: Levinas’ Ethics: Othering mathematics education. Jean-Francois Maheux and Dalene Swanson
DG8: Discourse and Equity in mathematics classrooms: a focus on students. Judit Moschkovich and Indigo Esmonde.
DG9: Different mathematics in shared settings – the cultured nature of pedagogy. Dianne Siemon, Ana Rabelo Gomes, Augusta Mendonca.
Proposals for a Working Session were submitted online via the registration system, by means of a one-page abstract. The deadline for the submission of a WS was March 1st, 2010. The number of the submitted proposals was 2.
In order for a proposal to be considered, the coordinator must pay the Conference Deposit by the submission date. Notification of receipt and acceptance of the proposal was mailed in April 2010.
Accepted proposals for a Working Session for the current year will be included in the Conference Proceedings, provided the full Registration Fee for the coordinators is paid before May 17th, 2010.
Two 90-minute sessions will be allocated to this activity.
Each Working Session is required to send a report of its activities to the PME Administrative Manager at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . This report will be included in PME News. The report is due by September 20th, 2010.
WS1: Online Mathematics Teacher Education Marcelo Borba, Salvador Llinares, Ellen Clay & Jason Silverman
WS2: Gesture, language and embodiment in Mathematics. Laurie Edwards, Janete Bolite Frant and Luis Radford
A National Presentation is intended to give participants an overview of the research activities carried out in a hosting country and its potential contribution to the community’s work. This year the presentation is entitled: Research in Mathematics Education in Brazil. Presenters: Maria Aparecida Viggiani Bicudo, Gelsa Knijnik, Maria do Carmo Domite, Maria da Conceição F.R.Fonseca.
The presentation focuses on research in mathematics education carried out in Brazil. The NP elaborates on development of the current situation, highlights concerns and challenges faced by the scientific community, summarizes the main research areas activity and finally discusses the contribution off the relevant research on Land Workers Education, Indigenous Education and Adult Education, in an attempt to provide insights into the above concerns and challenges.
PME has a mechanism to encourage and support inexperienced researchers by offering them the possibility of an Early Bird Procedure for submitting Research Reports or Short Oral Communications.
Inexperienced researchers who do not have access to appropriate local support and who would like to receive guidance from more experienced PME researchers can submit their paper to a coordinator who is appointed by the International Committee. The coordinator will then assign the paper to an appropriate mentor and make sure that the communication between the mentor and novice-researcher flows satisfactorily.
Please note that this procedure is meant to provide feedback to written reports. It is not meant as support for conducting research. The papers submitted should be accompanied by a statement in which authors declare that they are researcher with little previous experience in writing research reports (or journal articles) and have limited access to experienced advice. The mentors will correspond with the authors and will guide them in strengthening their papers. The mentoring does not guarantee acceptance, as the papers will still undergo the regular PME reviewing procedures.
People who wish to have a mentor to submit a Research report or Short Oral Communication for the PME35 Conference in 2011 should contact the coordinator as early as possible, no later than September 1st, 2010.
The Early Bird coordinator is Richard Barwell (Canada), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . |
Discussion Groups (DG)