Luis Radford

Luis Radford is professor at the School of Education Sciences at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. ^[1] His research interests cover both theoretical and practical aspects of mathematics thinking, teaching, and learning. His current research draws on Lev Vygotsky's historical-cultural school of thought, as well as Evald Ilyenkov's epistemology, in a conceptual framework influenced by Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin, leading to a non-utilitarian and a non-instrumentalist conception of the classroom and education.

Radford is an editor of the education journal For the Learning of Mathematics . In 2011 he was the recipient of the Hans Freudenthal Medal of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction for his "development of a semiotic-cultural theory of learning". ^[2]

He is the editor of book series "Semiotic Perspectives in the Teaching & Learning of Math" with Springer Verlag.

Publications

• Radford, Luis (2003). "Gestures, Speech, and the Sprouting of Signs: A Semiotic-Cultural Approach to Students' Types of Generalization". Mathematical Thinking and Learning. 5 (1). Informa UK Limited: 37–70. doi:10.1207/s15327833mtl0501_02. ISSN   1098-6065. S2CID   55479541.
• Luis Radford (2000) Signs and meanings in students' emergent algebraic thinking: A semiotic analysis. Educational Studies in Mathematics 42 (3).
• Luis Radford (1997) On psychology, historical epistemology, and the teaching of mathematics: towards a socio-cultural history of mathematics. For the Learning of Mathematics 17 (1).
• Luis Radford (2002) The seen, the spoken and the written: A semiotic approach to the problem of objectification of mathematical knowledge. For the learning of mathematics 22 (2).

References

1. "Luis Radford's Webpage!". Archived from the original on 2012-09-02. Retrieved 2010-05-30.
2. "The Hans Freudenthal Medal for 2011 goes to Luis Radford, Université Laurentienne, Sudbury, Canada" (PDF), ICMI Column, Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society , 84: 49–50, June 2012.