This chapter examines the change from education for developing high-level manpower, to universal primary education; what have been the implications for mathematics education; and what international co-operation in mathematics education has achieved. Decolonization changed the lives of most of the world’s inhabitants, allowing them to demand education. The comparative small percentage of students studying school mathematics, changed to the majority of school-aged children being in school. The mathematics programmes were no longer adequate and needed to be improved. The work in mathematics education of UNESCO, ICMI and its affiliates, and other mathematics education groups and institutions is examined. Their role in international co-operation is examined, giving an example of the interactions of this co-operation in one country in Africa. Finally an opinion is given of the likely future of world wide cooperation in mathematics education.
In mathematics education research, English has become the lingua franca in many situations. There are many advantages of having a lingua franca within such a diverse community. However in this paper, it is argued that the practices that are most affected by the need for a lingua franca, such as conference attendance and the writing of journal articles, also contribute to mathematics education research becoming monocultural, both in what is researched and how it is reported. Fictional dialogues are used to explore the construction of this monocultural nature of mathematics education research. In considering the collective praxis of researchers in this field, there is a need to identify the constraints on our possibilities for participating in those practices, along with the ways that those possibilities are affected by our participation. In this way, we not only begin a dialogue on these issues but have the possibility to locate other ways of participating.
ABSTRACTUNC-45A is an ubiquitously expressed protein highly conserved throughout evolution. Most of what we currently know about UNC-45A pertains to its role as a regulator of the actomyosin system...