Cultural development of mathematical ideas : Papua New Guinea studies /

"Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980, and 2001 with a remote Papua New Guinea group, the Oksapmin, Geoffrey Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a 27-body-part...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saxe, Geoffrey B.
Otros Autores: Esmonde, Indigo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Learning in doing.
Temas:
Cognition and culture > Papua New Guinea.
Number concept > Case studies.
Constructivism (Education)
Social change > Papua New Guinea.
Cognition et culture > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Concept de nombre > Études de cas.
Constructivisme (Éducation)
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Ethnopsychology.
Cognition and culture.
Number concept.
Social change.
Papua New Guinea.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The Origins of Number: Enduring Questions: 1. Culture-cognition relations; 2. Cultural forms of number representation used in Oksapmin communities
  • Part II. Economic Exchange: 3. Collective practices of economic exchange: a brief social history; 4. Reproduction and alteration of numerical representations; 5. Reproduction and alteration in currency token representations; 6. Representational forms, functions, collective practices, and fu: a microcosm
  • Part III. Schooling: 7. A brief history: collective practices of schooling in Oksapmin; 8. Unschooled children's developing uses of the body system; 9. Children's adaptations of the body system in school in 1980: an unintended consequence of post-colonial schooling; 10. About twenty years later: schooling and number; 11. Teachers and students as (unintentional) agents of change
  • Part IV. Towards an Integrated Treatment of Socio-Historical and Cognitive Developmental Processes: 12. What develops? A focus on form-function relations; 13. How do quantification practices develop?; 14. Why do form-function relations shift?
  • Epilogue.

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