La transizione universitaria in matematica come rito di passaggio: dialogo tra educazione matematica e antropologia

Mathematics education has, by its very nature, profound relationship with other fields of research. Among these related fields of research, a prominent place is certainly held by anthropology, as a discipline focused on the study of the human beings. Several studies in mathematics education refer to issues and constructs developed in the field of anthropology. Recently, some scholars tried to analyze the difficulties in the mathematical transition from secondary school to university describing it as a rite of passage. In this paper, we will describe this modeling attempt and its results, but more importantly we will discuss whether and how convincingly the model is used from an anthropological point of view.