In this article, our purpose is to discuss the question of knowledge compartmentalization considering it both in its wider epistemological dimension as in the way it presents itself, nowadays, to the ANPEd community of academic-scientific practice. In that more restricted aspect, we stress, particularly, the situation of the mathematics education working group in relation to the other working groups already institutionalized by ANPEd in the field of Brazilian educational research.
knowledge compartmentalization; ANPEd's working groups; working group in mathematics education