O Primeiro Movimento Internacional de Reforma Curricular em Matemática e o papel da Alemanha: um estudo de caso na transmissão de conteúdo

Abstract

At the beginning of the twentieth century, mathematics experienced an international movement for curricular and methodical reforms in its teaching. This was the first such movement and it was unique among the other school disciplines. The analysis of the movement, therefore, cannot be restricted to mathematics but has rather to take into account the broader social contexts. As these are mediated by national educational systems, one cannot assume an identify of the reform movements in the participating countries. The paper proposes the concept of transmission as adapted for studying the dissemination of reforms ideas from one several centers to other countries and the transformations which they undergo during the process of reception. As one of the main motors of the movement is constituted by a modernization crisis in Germany, the paper studies in particular the context of mathematics teaching there and the reform agenda of Felix Klein, one of the few eminent mathematicians who cared about the status of mathematics teaching.