Guy Brousseau

Guy Brousseau (born February 4, 1933 in Taza , Morocco ) is a leading French math teacher.

After training as a teacher at the École Normale d'Agen, he and his wife Nadine ran a primary school in Varès from 1953 to 1962.

From 1963 he studied at the Institut préparatoire aux enseignements de second degré (IPES). In 1968 he received his degree in mathematics and education and in 1969 became an assistant at the University of Bordeaux. After meeting André Lichnerowicz in 1965, he had previously founded the Center de Recherche pour l'Enseignement des Mathématiques (CREM) in Bordeaux and was director of the Center de recherches pour l'enseignement des mathématiques in Bordeaux from 1967 to 1969 . He later founded the Center pour l'Observation et la Recherche sur l'Enseignement des Mathématiques (COREM) at the Jules Michelet Primary School in Talence , which he directed from 1973 to 1998 and with which he gained international recognition. He became Maître de Conférences in Bordeaux in 1985 and received his doctorate there in 1986 under Bernard Malgrange (dissertation: Théorisation des phénomènes d'enseignement des mathématiques) and habilitated a year later. In 1991 he also became a university professor at the IUFM d'Aquitaine (Institut universitaire de formation des maîtres). He was active at the University of Bordeaux until 2002.

In 1986 he founded the Laboratoire Aquitain de Didactique des Sciences et Techniques (LADIST).

For his research on mathematics didactics in elementary schools, he also traveled to many countries in Europe, South and North America, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

He is known for developing the didactics of situations in the 1970s. With Gérard Freudeeaud (theory of conceptual fields), Yves Chevallard (anthropological theory of didactics) and Michèle Artigue, he is one of the most influential math didactics in France.

From 1981 to 1984 he was secretary of the Commission Internationale pour l'Etude et l'Amélioration de l'Enseignement des Mathématiques (CIEAEM).

In 2003 he was the first to receive the ICMI Felix Klein Medal . He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Montreal and Geneva.

Fonts

• Théorie des situations didactiques. Grenoble: La Pensée Sauvage 1998
  • English edition: Theory of didactical situations in mathematics, Mathematics Education Library 19, Springer 1997, 2002

Web links

• biography
• Literature by and about Guy Brousseau in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Information on Guy Brousseau in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .