Dr. Koeno Gravemeijer
Professor of Science and Technology Education
Eindhoven School of Education
Eindhoven University of Technology
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Dr. Gravemeijer currently is Professor of Science and Technology Education at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Earlier he was affiliated with the Freudenthal Institute of Utrecht University, and with Vanderbilt University. At that time his primary focus was on mathematics education. His research interests focus on curriculum development, instructional design, domain-specific instruction theories (such as the theory for realistic mathematics education, RME), teacher professional development, and students’ use of symbols and modeling. In relation to the latter he developed the ‘emergent modeling’ design heuristic. His interest in instructional design is not only theoretical. He headed a team that developed a textbook series for primary school, in the Netherlands, and he was part of the group that developed the NSF-funded, Middle School, textbook series, ‘Mathematics in Contexts’. His current research involves using design-based research to develop local theories of instruction as a means to understand and support learning processes.