Investigating the Role of Context in ExperimentalResearch Involving the Use of Digital Media for the Learning of Mathematics: Boundary Objectsas Vehicles for Integration

摘要

The paper describes a study of the contexts of six teams, expert in research anddevelopment of digital media for learning mathematics, who cross-experimented inclassrooms with the use of each other's artefacts. Contextual issues regarding the designedtasks and technologies, the socio-systemic milieu and the ways in which the researchersworked with the teachers were in focus. We analysed the ways in which a set of mutuallyconstructed and negotiated questions aiming to illuminate otherwise tacit contextual issuesoperated as boundary objects amongst the teams. We discuss the need to develop specialtools such as these boundary objects in order to elicit issues of context and the ways theymay affect the production of theory.