[cmath] Fwd: Call --- ICMI Awards

[Peter Taylor]

Call for nominations for two major ICMI awards.
peter

ICMI  --   The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction

THE ICMI AWARDS COMMITTEE


Announcement: Call for Nominations

As is probably well known to most mathematics 
educators around the world, the Executive 
Committee of the International Commission on 
Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) a number of years 
ago created two awards, each in the form of a 
diploma and a medal, to recognise outstanding 
accomplishments in mathematics education research:
--  the Hans Freudenthal Award, for a major 
programme of research on mathematics education,
--  the Felix Klein Award, for lifelong 
achievement in mathematics education research.

An ICMI Awards Committee has been appointed for 
selecting the awardees. The President of ICMI has 
appointed Professor Mogens Niss to chair this 
committee, the other members of which are 
anonymous until their terms have come to an end.

The first recipients of these two awards, 
Professor Guy Brousseau (France) for the Felix 
Klein Award and Professor Celia Hoyles (UK) for 
the Hans Freudenthal Award, formally received 
these at the opening ceremonies of ICME-10 in 
Copenhagen, in July 2004.  The two 2005 awards 
went to Professors Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (Brazil) 
(the Klein Award) and Paul Cobb (USA) (the 
Freudenthal Award), and for 2007, Professors 
Jeremy Kilpatrick (USA) and Anna Sfard 
(Israel/UK/USA) received the Klein and the 
Freudenthal Awards, respectively.  The awards for 
2005 and 2007 were formally presented to the 
recipients at the opening ceremony of ICME-11 in 
Monterrey, México, in July 2008.

The ICMI Awards Committee is now entering a 
fourth cycle of selecting awardees for 2009.  The 
result of this process will be known by the end 
of 2009.  The 2009 Awards will be presented to 
the recipients at ICME-12 in Seoul, Korea in 
2012.  As was the case with the previous cycles, 
the ICMI Awards Committee welcomes suggestions 
coming from the mathematics education community, 
hence this call for nominations.

A nomination of a candidate for the Felix Klein 
or the Hans Freudenthal Award has to be 
accompanied by a summary presenting the vita and 
the achievements of person nominated, as well as 
the reasons for the nomination.  Moreover, 
nominations also have to include the names and 
coordinates of two or three persons from whom the 
committee may seek further information.

All proposals must be sent by e-mail (mn at ruc.dk) 
to the Chair of the Committee no later than 15 September 2009.


Mogens Niss
Chair of the ICMI Awards Committee
IMFUFA, NSM, Building 27
Roskilde University
P.O.Box 260
DK-4000 Roskilde
DENMARK

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Peter Taylor
Professor
Dept Math&Stats
Queen's University
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
613 533-2434
http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/
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