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Time to Spatialise, Transdiscipline and Deconstruct CJSMTE?

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In this paper, I look over the past 20 years of articles in this journal in light of some potential directions for the future. In particular, I examine the way in which some of the local specificities of a Canadian journal relate to more global issues of educational research; I consider the relation between mathematics, science and technology as reflected in the published articles; and, I look at how different paradigms of research have been represented over time, particularly in relation to the mathematics education articles.

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Dans cet article, je pose un regard sur les 20 dernières années d'articles de cette revue à la lumière de quelques pistes potentielles pour l'avenir. En particulier, j'examine la manière dont certaines des spécificités locales d'une revue canadienne se rapportent aux enjeux plus mondiaux de la recherche en éducation, je me penche sur la relation entre les mathématiques, les sciences et la technologie telle que reflétée dans l'article publié et j'examine la façon dont différents paradigmes de recherche ont été représentés au fil du temps, en particulier en ce qui concerne les articles en didactique des mathématiques.

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Canan Güneş for her help with organising all of the CJSMTE articles into a database and identifying some of the key themes discussed in this paper. And, as per usual, thanks to David Pimm for his just-in-time reading and ever-so-observant editing.

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Sinclair, N. Time to Spatialise, Transdiscipline and Deconstruct CJSMTE?. Can. J. Sci. Math. Techn. Educ. 20, 657–667 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42330-020-00127-1

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