Popular culture, educational discourse, and mathematics / / Peter M. Appelbaum

• Autore: Appelbaum Peter Michael
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1995
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 309 p
• Disciplina: 510/.7
• Soggetto topico: Mathematics - Study and teaching; Mathematics - Psychological aspects; Popular culture
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-298) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 0. Introduction -- Opening -- Why is this Chapter 0? -- The Prospectus -- Mass Culture and Critical Pedagogy -- Introduction -- Power! -- Reading Popular Culture -- 1. The Best Teacher in America -- Everything Depends on the Teacher -- The Teacher as Myth -- Teacher as Signifier -- Teacher as Hero -- Escalante: The Best Teacher in America -- Unraveling the Myth -- Mathematics Teacher -- Why Does Everything Depend on the Teacher? -- 2. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel: Problem Solving on and off TV -- The Opposition of Method and Content -- Precedent: Professional Knowledge Overrides Teacher Personality -- Teachers as Epistemological Metaphors -- Philosophies of Mathematics Hide the Social -- Pedagogy and Popular Culture -- Game Shows Hit the Jackpot -- Games and Schools -- Probability and Profit -- Problems and Problem Solving -- Imitators and Echoes -- Numbers and Money -- The Transformation of Problem Solving -- 3. Gender and the Construction of Social Problems -- Gender as a Social Problem -- Gender and Sex -- A Political Context -- Liberal Feminist Research: A Professional Context -- Gender as News -- Coda -- -1. Consumer Culture: Power and the Identity Politics of Mathematics Education -- From Critical Literacy, to Popular Culture -- Mathematics as a Cultural Resource -- Danger -- Homage to Whitty and Young -- For(e)ward -- Epilogue/Prologue -- Notes -- Chapter 0 -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter (-1) -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Titolo autorizzato: Popular culture, educational discourse, and mathematics
• ISBN: 0-7914-9511-6; 0-585-04566-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826661603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series, education and culture.