Luis Radford is professor at the School of Education Sciences at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
[1] His research interests cover both theoretical and practical aspects of mathematics thinking, teaching, and learning.
His current research draws on Lev Vygotsky's historical-cultural school of thought, as well as Evald Ilyenkov's epistemology, in a conceptual framework influenced by Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin, leading to a non-utilitarian and a non-instrumentalist conception of the classroom and education.
In 2011 he was the recipient of the Hans Freudenthal Medal of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction for his "development of a semiotic-cultural theory of learning".
[2] He is the editor of book series "Semiotic Perspectives in the Teaching & Learning of Math" with Springer Verlag.