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Five decades of mathematics education research

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posted on 2018-03-01, 14:41 authored by Matthew InglisMatthew Inglis, Colin FosterColin Foster
Mathematics educators have been publishing their work in international research journals for nearly 5 decades. How has the field developed over this period? We analyzed the full text of all articles published in Educational Studies in Mathematics and the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education since their foundation. Using Lakatos’s (1978) notion of a research programme, we focus on the field’s changing theoretical orientations and pay particular attention to the relative prominence of the experimental psychology, constructivist, and sociocultural programmes. We quantitatively assess the extent of the “social turn,” observe that the field is currently experiencing a period of theoretical diversity, and identify and discuss the “experimental cliff,” a period during which experimental investigations migrated away from mathematics education journals.

Funding

This research was partially supported by a Royal Society Worshipful Company of Actuaries Research Fellowship.

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematics Education Centre

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Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Citation

INGLIS, M. and FOSTER, C., 2018. Five decades of mathematics education research. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 49 (4), pp.462-500.

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© National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2018-02-13

Publication date

2018

Notes

This paper is closed access. The publisher's website is at: https://www.nctm.org/Publications/Journal-for-Research-in-Mathematics-Education/About-the-Journal-for-Research-in-Mathematics-Education/.

ISSN

0021-8251

Language

  • en

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