Chris Breen
Emeritus Associate Professor
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Telephone: (021) 715 3559
Interests: Chris is an Emeritus Associate Professor of the School of Education at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a visiting faculty member at the UCT Graduate School of Business. In July 2007, Chris ended his three-year term of office as President of the largest research group in the field of mathematics education, the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME). As President he was responsible for the successful running of the past three annual conferences, which were held in Melbourne (2005), Prague (2006) and Seoul (2007). He has lectured as a visiting professor at the universities of Lisbon, Auckland and Monash and given plenary conference papers in Australia, Portugal, Korea, Greece, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Canada in recent years.
His current research interests centre on the implications that the exploration of a Complexity Science paradigm have for research and for teaching. In particular he is concerned about the challenge to be sufficiently mindful of one’s decisions in the moment and he has been strongly influenced by the ideas of Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana (enactivism) and John Mason (The Discipline of Noticing). A large collection of recent and older papers can be found on his web site www.chrisbreen.net.