Mathematics Education and Language : Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism Paperback / softback
by Tony Brown
Part of the Mathematics Education Library series
Paperback / softback
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`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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- Pages:270 pages, 7 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 270 p. 7 illus.
- Publisher:Springer
- Publication Date:23/08/2014
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- ISBN:9789401738002
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages, 7 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 270 p. 7 illus.
- Publisher:Springer
- Publication Date:23/08/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9789401738002
