The conclusion of Lagrange et al. (ibid.) was that the focus of literature on the
epistemological and cognitive dimensions clearly produces a corpus of didactical
knowledge useful to understand aspects of educational use of ICT. On the other hand
this understanding cannot alone support the integration of ICT. Using ICT for
teaching and learning mathematics in schools institutions involves more than just
epistemological considerations and the student is not just a "cognitive subject". To
analyse the use of an ICT tool in the complex classroom reality and the evolving
relationship of the students to the mathematical knowledge and to the tool, analysis of
the integration needs to include the institutional and instrumental dimensions.
In the meta-study, we planed to look also into a teacher dimension because we saw
him (her) as a central "actor" of the integration. We tried to characterise this
dimension by indicators (Table 1). We found very few mention of these indicators in
papers of the years 1994-1998. My interpretation is that innovators and researchers
made an implicit assumption: new technologies and the associated didactical
knowledge could easily be transferred to teachers by way of professional
development and training. I think that this assumption is questionable because in a
country like France, uses of technologies are deceptive although efforts have beenmade to train teachers. In my hypothesis the existing corpus of didactical knowledge
about ICT use is not sufficient to really help teachers integrate technology. Thus
research has to study the teacher and try to look at his(her) action in the light of new
dimensions. The second part of this paper aims to contribute to this study by
analysing a set of publications.