Mathematics Education and Language Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism

Mathematics Education and Language Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism / by Tony Brown.

Contemporary thinking on philosophy and the social sciences has primarily focused on the centrality of language in understanding societies and individuals; important developments which have been under-utilised by researchers in mathematics education. In this revised and extended edition this book re...

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Main Author: Brown, Tony (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:2nd ed. 2001.
Series:Mathematics Education Library, 20/a
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Mathematics—Study and teaching .
Philosophy and social sciences.
Science education.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Short Review of Recent Research
  • 1. Hermeneutics and Mathematics Education
  • Action and Meaning
  • Phenomenology
  • Hermeneutics
  • Hermeneutics and Education
  • Towards an Hermeneutical Understanding of Mathematics
  • 2. The Production of Mathematical Meaning: A Post-Structuralist Perspective
  • Post-Structuralism: A Radical Form of Hermeneutics
  • Post-Structuralism, Education and Mathematics
  • Saussurian Linguistics and Mathematics
  • Self-Reflexivity in Mathematical Engagement
  • Creating and Inheriting Mathematics
  • 3. Sharing Mathematical Perspectives
  • Discourse or Reality?
  • Locating Mathematical Knowledge
  • Assessing Mathematical Activity
  • Combining Language and Experience
  • 4. Some Lessons
  • 5. The Phenomenology of the Mathematics Classroom
  • Personal Space
  • Appresentational Association
  • Acting in the Supposed World
  • 6. Teacher-Student Interactions
  • 7. Narratives of Learning Mathematics
  • Multiple Accounts
  • The Transition from Arithmetical to Algebraic Thinking
  • Storying Transition
  • Semantic Innovation
  • Concluding Comments
  • 8. Mathematics and Language
  • 9. Developing Teacher Practice
  • Writing as a Mechanism for Professional Development
  • Building a Professional Discourse of Mathematics Teaching within an Initial Training Course
  • Building an Understanding of the Teacher’s Task through Practitioner Enquiry
  • 10. Mathematical Cultures
  • 11. The Social Constitution of Mathematics
  • References
  • Name Index.

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