Supervisor: Ifegenia Vamvakidou

Title: Representations of cultural values in the school textbook: Mathematics of C Grade, Mathematics of Nature and Life

Three-member advisory comitee:

1) Ifegenia Vamvakidou
2) Nikos Fotopoulos
3) Charalambos Lemonidis

Abstract

The purpose and originality of the Phd thesis lies in the novice course material presented in the textbook entitled “Mathematics of Nature and life”, as for the first time in addition to mathematical knowledge and educational information the transmitters for its writing of the textbook choose “sings” and “symbols”, linguistic and visual signifiers referring to values.