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José Manuel Leonardo de Matos

Research Group:

6: Education, Knowledge and Culture


Research Team:

Curriculum, technologies and training


Online Profile:


E-mail:

jmm@fct.unl.pt




José Manuel Leonardo de Matos began his career at the Normal School of Beja and was a high school mathematics teacher. He completed his master's degree at Boston University (1985) and his doctorate at the University of Georgia (1999) and taught at the FCT/UNL. Currently he is a visiting professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He held several positions in the Association of Mathematics Teachers, the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences and the Portuguese Society for Research in Mathematical Education. He was editor of the first Portuguese research journal in Mathematics Education and coordinator of a research centre. He integrated research teams focused on mathematics learning, math class culture, school success and historical studies and is the author and editor of several research books.


Research Interests:

Mathematics education. Culture of mathematics classrooms. History of mathematics education. Activity theory. Cultural history.