ABSTRACT
Consider the following anecdotes based on real experiences:
A group of students from a state school in Brisbane uses the Internet to study mathematics within a “community of learners” with other students from Canada.
A developing country in Latin America thinking about education reform in particular with regard to assessment invites researchers from the United Kingdom to give advice about what they need to do. To keep the advice more comprehensive, they make it a point to invite people from both sides of the debate about national testing and national curriculum.
At the induction ceremony of a group of PhD students in Colombia, a professor is giving a lecture on the major developments of educational thought during this century. He cites Ausubel, Piaget, Von Glaserfeld, Kuhn, and many other very familiar theorists. He did not make a reference to Orlando Fals Borda of Colombia or Paulo Freire of Brazil.
A group of 30 educators from Spain, the United States, and Canada volunteered their holiday time to assist students from Universidad Nacional de El Salvador to obtain master’s degrees in mathematics education.
