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July 2008 > Faculty > Honors
Schoenfeld Honored for Research in Mathematics Education
The Special Interest Group for Research in Mathematics Education (SIG/RME) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) has awarded professor Alan Schoenfeld with its second Senior Scholar Award.
The award is presented in alternate years in recognition of the programmatic research of a single scholar within the field of mathematics education whose work has been essential in the progress of mathematics education as a field of inquiry. The selection committee noted that Schoenfeld’s empirically grounded research has so contributed to development within the field that this body of work now serves as a primary theoretical reference on mathematical problem solving and cognition.
In their award letter to the longtime GSE professor, SIG/RME Chairs Judith T. Sowder and Patricia F. Campbell wrote: “Your work has established an intellectual heritage whose constructs and results are used regularly by others. Further, your efforts to develop a doctoral program in mathematics and science education at the University of California Berkeley has nurtured a generation of doctoral and post-doctoral students who, by adopting and adapting your research focus on mathematical cognition, have developed additional research that is breaking new theoretical ground in the study of mathematical thinking.”
They also noted that Schoenfeld’s theoretical and empirical research in mathematics education had “contributed significantly to the broader field of educational inquiry while at the same time advancing the identity and progress of research in mathematics education.”The Senior Scholar Award will be presented at the 2009 AERA annual meeting, at which time Schoenfeld is expected to give an address at the conference.
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