Mathematics education research at university level

Abstract

Making sense of recent research achievements, through the multiplicity of existing discourses, and through the multiplicity of changing contexts where they are produced, is thus a very challenging task. If the author considers retrospectively the research we developed, it is rather representative of some predominant characteristics of university research in mathematics and physics education at that time. The research section, however, tends to show that the “social turn” in mathematics education research, as denoted by Steve Lerman, has not yet substantially impacted research at that level. As pointed out in the entry of the Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education on Service-courses in university mathematics, “research on mathematical service-courses plays an increasing role at international conferences on university mathematics education like Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, International Congress on Mathematical Education, idea of developing an International Network for Didactic Research in University Mathematics and Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education”.