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Mathematics education and language : interpreting hermeneutics and post-structuralism /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Tony, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1997.
Colección:Mathematics education library ; v. 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-257) and indexes.
ISBN:9780792345541
0792345541
0306472139
9780306472138
6610207623
9786610207626