Mathematics Education and Language Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism

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
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2001, 2001
Edition:2nd ed. 2001
Series:Mathematics Education Library
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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 reaches out to contemporary work in these broader fields, adding new material on how progression in mathematical learning might be variously understood. A new concluding chapter considers how teachers experience the new demands they face
Physical Description:X, 306 p. 1 illus online resource
ISBN:9789401007269