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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
©1997.
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Colección: | Mathematics education library ;
v. 20. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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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 |