Introduction
The Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD) is a research framework created by Yves Chevallard, the first formulation of which appeared in the 1980s with the notion of didactic transposition and the analyses in terms of the ecology of knowledge (Chevallard 1980, 1990, 1991, 1992). Since then, research within the ATD has developed in mathematics education as well as in other educational areas (Achiam and Marandino 2014; Chevallard and Ladage 2008; Florensa 2018). The aim of the ATD is the elucidation of human societies’ relation to “the didactic,” that is to say, to all the possible factors of learning. By adopting an anthropological point of view, it purports to embrace the didactic wherever it may show itself around us, paying special attention to the institutional constructions of knowledge and the conditions established to disseminate it. The ATD has developed a precise/specific conceptual organization to approach these conditions and constructions from a fresh...
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Chevallard, Y., Bosch, M. (2020). Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD). In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_100034
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