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Networking Different Theoretical Perspectives

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During the last decade researchers in mathematics education have devoted efforts to understanding how theories can be connected successfully while respecting their underlying conceptual and methodological assumptions, a process called ‘networking theories’. Both authors of this chapter have had the privilege of collaborating with Michèle Artigue and colleagues where we explored ways of handling the diversity of theories in mathematics education. In this chapter, we describe this collaboration and explain the reasons for networking theories as well as the expected difficulties of the networking process. We characterise different cases of networking and describe methodological reflections on the difficulties and benefits that accompany the networking. We refer to Michèle Artigue’s contribution to the research on “networking theories” in general and in methodologies of the networking of theories in particular.

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  1. Applied Mathematics Department, Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel

    Ivy Kidron

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs

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  3. Laboratoire de Didactique André Revuz (EA 4434), Université Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France

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Kidron, I., Bikner-Ahsbahs, A. (2016). Networking Different Theoretical Perspectives. In: Hodgson, B., Kuzniak, A., Lagrange, JB. (eds) The Didactics of Mathematics: Approaches and Issues. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26047-1_3

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