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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971467303321

Autore

Brown Tony <1946->

Titolo

Mathematics education and language : interpreting hermeneutics and post-structuralism / / by Tony Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht ; ; Boston, : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1997

ISBN

9780306472139

9786610207626

9781280207624

1280207620

9780306472138

0306472139

Edizione

[1st ed. 2002.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Mathematics education library ; ; v. 20

Disciplina

510/.71

Soggetti

Mathematics - Study and teaching

Language and education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-257) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

`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.'.