The Disorder of Mathematics Education Challenging the Sociopolitical Dimensions of Research

Hauke Straehler Pohl works as a researcher and teacher educator at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests evolve around the sociology of, the politics of, and the philosophy of education in general as well as in mathematics education in particular. His particular interest is devoted to the social pathologies that impede schools from creating the conditions for a “good life” within the Social for everyone.

Nina Bohlmann works as a researcher at the Faculty of Education, Freie Universität Berlin. She is mainly interested in issues of social inequality with a focus on mathematics education and investigates mechanisms of the reproduction of social inequality in classroom interaction. She aims at a further theorizing and approaches this research area mainly from a micro-sociological perspective. In addition to her research she is involved in the teacher training of pre-service primary school teachers.

Alexandre works in Manchester (Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University) where he reads, writes, teaches and talks about all aspects of educational research amenable to philosophical investigation. He is a scholar of Lacan and Žižek.