Josep Gascón
Abstract: The construction of reference epistemological models enables the emancipation
of the Didactics of Mathematics from the epistemological models prevailing in the
different institutions that are part of Didactics’ objects of study. It also makes new didactic
phenomena visible, thus highlighting the incidence of Epistemology on Didactics. The
same tools can be used to enable the epistemological emancipation of the History of
Mathematics and to reinterpret historical facts. Reciprocally, historical research (and
didactics research) can evaluate and correct the local epistemological models specific of
a given domain of mathematics.
Keywords: epistemological emancipation, didactic phenomena, History of Mathematics,
reference epistemological models.
