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Call for nominations for two major ICMI awards.<br>
peter<br><br>
<b>ICMI -- The International Commission on Mathematical
Instruction<br><br>
THE ICMI AWARDS COMMITTEE<br><br>
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Announcement: Call for Nominations<br><br>
</b>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:<br>
-- the<i> Hans Freudenthal Award</i>, for a major programme of
research on mathematics education,<br>
-- the F<i>elix Klein Award</i>, for lifelong achievement in
mathematics education research.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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<b>. </b> 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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
<b>All proposals must be sent by e-mail
(<font color="#0000FF"><u>mn@ruc.dk</u></font>) to the Chair of the
Committee no later than 15 September 2009.<br><br>
<br>
</b>Mogens Niss<br>
Chair of the ICMI Awards Committee<br>
IMFUFA, NSM, Building 27<br>
Roskilde University<br>
P.O.Box 260<br>
DK-4000 Roskilde<br>
DENMARK<br><br>
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<div>Peter Taylor</div>
<div>Professor</div>
<div>Dept Math&Stats</div>
<div>Queen's University</div>
<div>Kingston ON K7L 3N6</div>
<div>613 533-2434</div>
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