Luis Radford is professor at the School of Education Sciences at Laurentian University

Laurentian University

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 in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

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His research interests cover both theoretical and practical aspects of mathematics thinking, teaching, and learning. His current research draws on Lev Vygotsky

Lev Vygotsky

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's historical-cultural school of thought, as well as and Evald Ilyenkov

Evald Ilyenkov

Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov was a Marxist author and Soviet philosopher who did original work on the materialist development of Hegel's dialectics...

's epistemology, in a conceptual framework influenced by Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Lévinas

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 and Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language...

, leading to a non-utilitarian and a non-instrumentalist conception of the classroom and education.

Radford is an editor of the education journal For the learning of mathematics.

Publications

• Luis Radford (2003) Gestures, Speech, and the Sprouting of Signs: A Semiotic-Cultural Approach to Students' Types of Generalization. Mathematical thinking and learning 5 (1).

• Luis Radford (2000) Signs and meanings in students' emergent algebraic thinking: A semiotic analysis. Educational Studies in Mathematics
  Educational Studies in Mathematics
  Educational Studies in Mathematics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal within the field of mathematics education. Founded by Hans Freudenthal, it first appeared in 1968. Published by Springer, the journal normally appears in 3 annual volumes, each consisting of 3 issues...
  
   42 (3).

• Luis Radford (1997) On psychology, historical epistemology, and the teaching of mathematics: towards a socio-cultural history of mathematics. For the Learning of Mathematics 17 (1).

• Luis Radford (2002) The seen, the spoken and the written: A semiotic approach to the problem of objectification of mathematical knowledge. For the learning of mathematics 22 (2).