The Documentational Approach to Didactics (DAD) aims to study teachers’ professional development through their interactions with their resources for/from teaching. It has been introduced in the French community of didactics of mathematics in 2007 (Gueudet & Trouche 2008, 2009), then extended at an international level (Gueudet, Pepin & Trouche 2012). It has been proposed in 2018 as a new entry for the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education (Trouche, Gueudet & Pepin 2020). This entry has been updated in 2020 (link for accessing this updated version).
The DAD-Multilingual project (2020-2021) aims to gather and confront the translations of this English updated version towards several languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian). The set of these translations constitute a collection in the French HAL Open-Archive.
This project has several goals:
- Making available a presentation of DAD in various languages, allowing the researchers interested to refer to in their own language;
- Deepening the DAD concepts themselves in thinking their possible instantiations in different languages, and questioning the translating process itself;
- Beyond the frame of DAD, questioning the notion of resource itself, resource for/from teaching;
- Designing (in a later step) a multilingual glossary of DAD.
The first goal has been achieved in November 2020. Next step: using this material (translation and associated reflections) for reaching the following goals!
The actors of this project
The project involves three editors, authors of the DAD entry (Luc Trouche, Ghislaine Gueudet and Birgit Pepin), a scientific committee, and, for each language, (at least) a translator and a reviewer.
The scientific committee is composed of: Jill Adler, Michèle Artigue, Nicolas Balacheff, Rongjin Huang, Janine Remillard, and Kenneth Ruthven.
Most of the translators and reviewers have participated in the development of the approach, particularly within the work of the International Re(s)source 2018 conference (Gitirana et al. 2018), and the book issued from this conference (Trouche, Gueudet & Pepin 2019).
The translators: Hussein Sabra (Arabic), Chongyang Wang (Chinese), Ghislaine Gueudet & Luc Trouche (French), Birgit Pepin (German), Giorgos Psycharis (Greek), Michal Tabach (Hebrew), Katalin Gosztonyi (Hungarian), Michela Maschietto (Italian), Takeshi Miyakawa (Japanese), Iveta Kohanova and Øistein Gjøvik (Norwegian), Katiane Rocha and Cibelle Assis (Portuguese), Ulises Salinas-Hernández (Spanish), Burcu Nur Basturk (Turkish) and Maryna Rafalska (Ukrainian).
The reviewers: Jehad Alshwaikh (Arabic), Binyan Xu (Chinese), Gilles Aldon (French), Sebastian Rezat (German), Chronis Kynigos (Greek), Tommy Dreyfus (Hebrew), Eszter Varga (Hungarian), Monica Panero (Italian), Yusuke Shinno (Japanese), Svein Arne Sikko (Norwegian), Sonia Igliori (Portuguese), Ana Isabel Sacristan (Spanish), Menekşe Seden Tapan Broutin (Turkish) and Tetyana Pidhorna (Ukrainian).
The structure of this website
This website proposes:
- The set of translations;
- A reflection on emerging translation issues;
- Papers on DAD crossing different languages;
- Paper and initiatives related to the DAD-Multilingual project;
- Towards a glossary.
References
- Gitirana, V., Miyakawa, T., Rafalska, M., Soury-Lavergne, S., & Trouche, L. (Eds.) (2018). Proceedings of the Re(s)sources 2018 International Conference. ENS de Lyon,
- Gueudet, G., & Trouche, L. (2008). Du travail documentaire des enseignants : genèses, collectifs, communautés. Le cas des mathématiques. Education & didactique, 2(3), 7-33
- Gueudet, G., & Trouche, L. (2009). Towards new documentation systems for mathematics teachers? Educational Studies in Mathematics, 71(3), 199-218
- Gueudet, G., Pepin, B., & Trouche, L. (Eds.) (2012). From Text to ‘Lived’ Resources: Mathematics Curriculum Materials and Teacher Development. New York, Springer.
- Trouche, L., Gueudet, G., & Pepin, B. (2020). Documentational approach to didactics. In S. Lerman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education (2nd edition, pp. 237-247). Cham: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_100011
- Trouche, L., Gueudet, G., & Pepin, B. (Eds.) (2019). The 'resource' approach to Mathematics Education. Springer Series Advances in Mathematics Education. Cham: Springer.
Contact: Luc Trouche at ens-lyon.fr