Toward an Anthropology of Graphing Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives
During the summer of 1990, while taking my holidays to teach a university course of physics for elementary teachers, I also tutored one of the tenth-grade students at my school in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. In return for working with him for free, I had requested permission to audiotape ou...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: An Introduction
- 1.1 Graphing is Pervasive
- 1.2 Nature of Practice
- 1.3 Reading Graphs as Semiotic Practice
- 1.4 Graphs as Sign Objects
- 1.5 Graphing as Rhetorical Practice
- 1.6 Graphs as Conscription Devices
- 1.7 Conclusion and Outlook
- One: Graphing in Captivity
- 2 From ‘Expertise’ to Situated Reason: The Role of Experience, Familiarity, and Usefulness
- 3 Unfolding Interpretations: Graph Interpretation as Abduction
- 4 Problematic Readings: Case Studies of Scientists Struggling with Graph Interpretation
- 5 Articulating Background: Scientists Explain Graphs of their Own Making
- Two: Graphing in the Wild
- 6 Reading Graphs: Transparent Use of Graphs in Everyday Activity
- 7 From Writhing Lizards to Graphs: The Development of Embodied Graphing Competence
- 8 Fusion of Sign and Referent: From Interpreting to Reading of Graphs
- Appendix: The Tasks
- A.1 Plant Distributions
- A.2 Population Dynamics
- A.3 Isoclines
- A.4 Scientists’ Graphs
- Notes
- References