Mathematics Education and Language
` Contemporary thinking on philosophy and the social sciences has been dominated by analyses that emphasise the importance of language in understanding societies and individuals functioning within them; important developments which have been under-utilised by researchers in mathematics education. This book reaches out to contemporary work in these broader fields; drawing on original sources in key areas such as Gadamer and Ricoeur's development of hermeneutics, Habermas' work in critical social theory, Schutz's social phenomenology, Saussure's linguistics and the post-structuralist analysis of Derrida, Foucault and Barthes. Through examining the writings of these major thinkers it is shown how language is necessarily instrumental in developing mathematical understanding; but a language that is in a permanent state of becoming, resisting stable connections to the ideas it locates. The analysis offered extends from children doing mathematics to teachers inspecting and developing their own professional practices. '
| Autor: | Brown, Tony |
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| ISBN: | 9789401738002 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 270 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer Netherland |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.08.2014 |
| Untertitel: | Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism |
| Schlagworte: | Mathematica education function mathematics philosophy |