Anna Sfard
Anna Sfard | |
|---|---|
אנה ספרד | |
| Education | |
| Father | Zygmunt Bauman |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | University of Haifa |
| Thesis | Teaching Theory of Algorithms in High-School (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | |
Anna B. Sfard (Hebrew: אנה ספרד) is a retired Israeli psychologist of mathematics education, focusing on the roles of communication and reification in mathematical reasoning. She is a professor emerita of Mathematics Learning Sciences at the University of Haifa.[1]
Education and career
[edit | edit source]Sfard is the daughter of sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman.[2] She began studying physics at the University of Warsaw in Poland in 1967. However, before completing her studies there, she moved to Israel with her father during the 1968 Polish political crisis, and entered the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics there in 1972, a master's degree in mathematics in 1977, and a Ph.D. in 1989.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Teaching Theory of Algorithms in High-School, was jointly supervised by Menachem Magidor and Michael Maschler.[4]
After postdoctoral research in the UK, US, and Canada, she became an assistant professor of mathematics education at the University of Haifa in 1995. She was promoted to full professor there in 2001. She has also been Lappan-Phillips-Fitzgerald Professor of Mathematics Education at Michigan State University from 2003 to 2007, and Chair of Mathematics Education at the University of London from 2007 to 2009.[3][5]
Selected publications
[edit | edit source]Sfard is the author of the book Thinking as communicating: Human development, development of discourses, and mathematizing (Cambridge University Press, 2008).[6]
She is also the author of two translations and the editor of several edited volumes in mathematics education.[7]
Her research articles include:
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Recognition
[edit | edit source]Sfard was the recipient of the 2007 Hans Freudenthal Award of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, "in recognition of her highly significant and scientifically deep accomplishments within a consistent, long-term research programme focused on objectification and discourse in mathematics education".[3]
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2015.[5] She was elected as an international associate of the National Academy of Education in 2016,[8] and as an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.[1]
She was an invited speaker at the 2022 (virtual) International Congress of Mathematicians.[9]
References
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- Mathew D. Felton & Mitchell Nathan (2009), "Exploring Sfard's commognitive framework", Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., JSTOR 40539357
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- Living people
- Israeli mathematicians
- Israeli women mathematicians
- Israeli psychologists
- Israeli women psychologists
- Israeli mathematics educators
- Israeli women educators
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Haifa
- Michigan State University faculty
- Academics of the University of London