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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505 0 |a 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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520 |a 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