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42
Citations
9397
World Ranking
4668
National Ranking
276

Overview

Luis Radford is affiliated with Laurentian University in Canada and specializes in Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Education. Their research spans various subfields, including Education, Sociology and Political Science, Theoretical Computer Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Statistics and Probability.

The core themes of Luis Radford's work involve Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques, Educational Theories and Practices, Education Pedagogy and Practices, History and Theory of Mathematics, Education and Teacher Training, Education and Digital Technologies, and Science and Education Research.

The scientist has published several papers in well-known academic venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Introducing equations in early algebra, 2022, ZDM
  • Davydov's concept of the concept and its dialectical materialist background, 2020, Educational Studies in Mathematics
  • El aprendizaje visto como saber y devenir: una mirada desde la teoría de la objetivación, 2020, Rematec
  • An introduction to multiple perspectives on Davydov's approach in the XXI century, 2021, Educational Studies in Mathematics
  • Learning as a critical encounter with the other: prospective teachers conversing with the history of mathematics, 2022, ZDM

Frequent publication venues for Luis Radford include:

  • ZDM
  • Rematec
  • Educational Studies in Mathematics
  • PARADIGMA
  • Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática Perspectivas Socioculturales de la Educación Matemática

The scientist has coauthored several works with colleagues such as:

  • Jaqueline Santos Vargas Plaça
  • Rodolfo Vergel
  • Vanessa Dias Moretti
  • George Santi
  • Vilma Mesa

In addition to journal articles, Luis Radford has contributed to book publications. For instance, the scientist authored a book titled La teoría de la objetivación, published by Ediciones Uniandes eBooks in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Gestures, Speech, and the Sprouting of Signs: A Semiotic-Cultural Approach to Students' Types of Generalization

    Luis Radford

  • Signs and meanings in students' emergent algebraic thinking: A semiotic analysis

    Luis Radford

  • Why do gestures matter? Sensuous cognition and the palpability of mathematical meanings

    Luis Radford

  • ALGEBRAIC THINKING AND THE GENERALIZATION OF PATTERNS: A SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE

    Luis Radford

  • Iconicity and contraction: a semiotic investigation of forms of algebraic generalizations of patterns in different contexts

    Luis Radford

  • The Seen, the Spoken, and the Written: A Semiotic Approach to the Problem of Objectification of Mathematical Knowledge.

    Luis Radford

  • The Ethics of Being and Knowing: Towards a Cultural Theory of Learning

    Luis Radford Hernandez;L. Radford;G. Schubring;F. Seeger

  • On Psychology, Historical Epistemology, and the Teaching of Mathematics: Towards a Socio­ Cultural History of Mathematics*l

    Luis Radford

  • A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning

    Wolff-Michael Roth;Luis Radford

  • Connecting theories in mathematics education: challenges and possibilities

    Luis Radford

  • Elementos de una teoría cultural de la objetivación 1

    Luis Radford

  • Layers of generality and types of generalization in pattern activities

    Luis Radford

  • The Progressive Development of Early Embodied Algebraic Thinking.

    Luis Radford;Luis Radford

  • Algebraic thinking from a cultural semiotic perspective

    Luis Radford

  • Three Key Concepts of the Theory of Objectification: Knowledge, Knowing, and Learning

    Luis Radford

  • The Anthropology of Meaning

    Luis Radford

  • Introduction: beyond words

    L. Radford;L. Edwards;Ferdinando Arzarello

  • Layers of Generality and Types of Generalization in Pattern Activities (Niveles de Generalidad y Tipos de Generalizaciones en Actividades de Patrones)

    Luis Radford

  • Grade 2 Students’ Non-Symbolic Algebraic Thinking

    Luis Radford

  • Perceiving the General: The Multisemiotic Dimension of Students' Algebraic Activity

    Luis Radford;Caroline Bardino;Cristina Sabena

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolff-Michael Roth
Wolff-Michael Roth University of Victoria
Lyn D. English
Lyn D. English Queensland University of Technology
Merrilyn Goos
Merrilyn Goos University of Limerick

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