THE EFFECT OF STUDENTS’ ROLES ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SHARED MEANINGS DURING PROBLEM SOLVING Konstantinos Tatsis Eugenia Koleza The analysis of interaction among students is becoming very important in mathematics education, especially among the scholars who view knowledge as socially constructed and negotiated. One of the features of human interaction is the roles that people perform while interacting. Using a symbolic interactionist perspective, we analyzed the evolution of students’ roles in time and their effect on the establishment of shared meanings. INTRODUCTION discourse Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004 Vol 4 pp 289–296 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK behavior performance face 4–290 PME28 – 2004 face work METHODOLOGY responses effect SAMPLE ANALYSIS PME28 – 2004 4–291 4–292 PME28 – 2004 PME28 – 2004 4–293 CONCLUSIONS References Role Theory: Concepts and Research. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method, PME 25 Proceedings. MEAS 1 Proceedings. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 36(3), 4–294 PME28 – 2004 PME 25 Proceedings. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 29 (3), Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-To-Face Behaviour. Proceedings of the 19th PME Conference. Mind, Self and Society. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 19(4), CERME2: European Research in Mathematics Education II. Approaches to Discourse. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 2(3), Language and Communication in the Mathematics Classroom Basics of Qualitative Research. Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. 2nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics Proceedings, Role Theory: Concepts and Research. Electronic Journal of Science Education, 4 (4), PME28 – 2004 4–295 Cultural Perspectives on the Mathematics Classroom. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 27(4), Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 19 (3), PME 25 Proceedings. 4–296 PME28 – 2004