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Mathematics Education and Subjectivity: Cultures and Cultural Renewal (Mathematics Education Library Book 51) by Tony Brown (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mathematics Education and Subjectivity: Cultures and Cultural Renewal (Mathematics Education Library Book 51) about?
This book rethinks mathematical teaching and learning with view to changing them to meet or resist emerging demands. Through considering how teachers, students and researchers make sense of their worlds, the book explores how some linguistic and socio-cultural locations link to prevalent conceptions of mathematics education. The locations include classroom mathematics, spatial awareness, media images of mathematics, curriculum development, teacher education and mathematics education research itself. The book introduces cutting edge theories of subjectivity that trouble more familiar psychological theories of “humans” apprehending mathematical “concepts”. Rather, it suggests that our senses of self and of mathematics result from self-reflections within the various localities in which we live. In foregrounding subjectivity the book shows how mathematics can provoke alternative ways of thinking towards enlivening our transformative capacities. Learning itself is depicted as participation in cultural renewal, where the very mathematics encountered is becoming something new. Addressing teachers, teacher educators and researchers, the book invites the reader to contemplate alternative tr
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tony Brown (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299770164
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Education, School Education & Teaching
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