Brown Mathematics Education and Language

Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-306-47213-8
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 20, 270 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Mathematics Education Library

` 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. '

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Tony

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Short Review of Recent Research.- Experiencing Mathematics.- Hermeneutics and Mathematics Education.- The Production of Mathematical Meaning: A Post-Structuralist Perspective.- Sharing Mathematical Perspectives.- The Classroom Environment.- Some Lessons.- The Phenomenology of the Mathematics Classroom.- The Teacher’s Perspective.- Teacher-Student Interactions.- Developing Teacher Practice.- Conclusion.- Conclusion.