A. Arthur Bakker
Mathematics - Freudenthal Institute - Mathematics Education
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Bakker currently focuses on embodied cognition (conferences 2015 and 2017) as well as interest and attitude towards science and mathematics. Technology plays an important role in almost every project. A project on Interest in Science: Development Across Sites of Learning (ISDASOL) started in September 2012 (with Akkerman). An NWO PROO project on promoting student attitude toward science and mathematics produced a meta-analysis published in Educational Research Review. Recently NWO Creative Industries has funded a project on the Digital Turn in Epistemology with three PhD students (with prof. F. A. Muller and Jan Broersen). Bakker is interested in philosophy (inferentialism, with Jan Derry, UCL) and collaborates with Dor Abrahamson (Berkeley). From August 2016 - 2017 he worked parttime as a fellow for Bremen University (Germany) on a book about design research (Routledge) and gave workshops for PhD students who do design research in education.
Research Interest
mathematics education
Publications
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Bakker, A., Ben-Zvi, D., & Makar, K. (in press). An inferentialist perspective on the coordination of actions and reasons involved in making a statistical inference. Mathematics Education Research Journal. doi: 10.1007/s13394-016-0187-x
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Bakker, A., & Hußmann, S. (in press). Inferentialism in mathematics education: Introduction to a special issue. Mathematics Education Research Journal
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Taylor, S. D., Noorloos, R., & Bakker, A. (in press). Mastering as an inferentialist alternative to the acquisition and participation metaphors for learning. Journal of Philosophy of Education.
