Publicado em 17/07/2013:
Daniel Orey, PhD, is a professor of
mathematics education in the Centro de Educação Aberta e a Distância at
the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in Brazil. A professor for 22
years at California State University, Sacramento, in the College of
Education and the Department of Learning Skills, he began his teaching
career in 1978. After living and teaching in Guatemala, he completed a
Masters degree at New Mexico State University, and earned a Ph.D. at the
University of New Mexico. Daniel's Masters work took him to Patzun,
Guatemala where he undertook field research with LOGO, computers and
Mayan children. During his doctoral research, he served as a consultant
at the Colegio Americano de Puebla and for Apple de México. With
specialties in mathematics education, modeling and ethnomathematics, he
was a Fulbright scholar to the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de
Campinas; served as a CNPq visiting researcher at the Universidade
Federal de Ouro Preto; and served as a Senior Fulbright Specialist to
Kathmandu University in Nepal. In 2011, Daniel and his husband moved to
Brazil where he is currently teaching at Univeridade Federal de Ouro
Preto.
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