Statistics Teacher Education at Secondary School Level in the Paradigm of Questioning the World

This paper presents the design and implementation of a “study and research path for teacher education” (SRP-TE) based on the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD). The SRP-TE approaches a school exercise about the distribution of water resources in Brazil, and turns it into an open activity. The activities promoted by this enquiry foster different dimensions of statistical work, and can be used to analyse curriculum and textbook proposals. When asked about the multi-disciplinary knowledge works that intervene in the enquiry, pre-service teachers disregard numerous dimensions of the statistical work, especially those related to data handling, which they do not seem to consider as part of the mathematical –or statistical– activity involved.