Critical Issues in Mathematics Education

Section I.Introduction

1. Developing a Festschrift with a Difference
Philip Clarkson, Norma Presmeg

2. In Conversation with Alan Bishop
Philip Clarkson

Section II.Teacher Decision Making

3. Decision-Making, the Intervening Variable
Alan J. Bishop

4. Teachers’ Decision Making: from Alan J. Bishop to Today
Hilda Borko, Sarah A. Roberts, Richard Shavelson

Section III.Spatial Abilities, Visualization, and Geometry

5. Spatial Abilities and Mathematics Education – A Review
Alan J. Bishop

6. Spatial Abilities Research as a Foundation for Visualization in Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Norma Presmeg

7. Spatial Abilities, Mathematics, Culture, and the Papua New Guinea Experience
M.A. (Ken) Clements

Section IV.Cultural and Social Aspects

8. Visualising and Mathematics in a Pre-Technological Culture
A.J. Bishop

9. Cultural and Social Aspects of Mathematics Education: Responding to Bishop’s Challenge
Bill Barton

10. Chinese Culture, Islamic Culture, and Mathematics Education
Frederick Leung

Section V.Social and Political Aspects

11. Mathematical Power to the People
Alan J. Bishop

12. Mathematical Power as Political Power – The Politics of Mathematics Education
Christine Keitel, Renuka Vithal

Section VI.Teachers and Research

13. Research, Effectiveness, and the Practitioners’ World
Alan J. Bishop

14. Practicing Research and Researching Practice
Jeremy Kilpatrick

15. Reflexivity, Effectiveness, and the Interaction of Researcher and Practitioner Worlds
Kenneth Ruthven

Section VII.Values

16. Mathematics Teaching and Values Education – An Intersection in Need of Research
Alan J. Bishop

17. Valuing Values in Mathematics Education
Wee Tiong Seah

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