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Learning Discourse : Discursive Approaches to Research in Mathematics Education by Anna Sfard (auth.), Carolyn Kieran, Ellice Forman, Anna Sfard (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Learning Discourse : Discursive Approaches to Research in Mathematics Education about?

The authors of this volume claim that mathematics can be usefully re-conceptualized as a special form of communication. As a result, the familiar discussion of mental schemes, misconceptions, and cognitive conflict is transformed into a consideration of activity, patterns of interaction, and communication failure. By equating thinking with communicating, the discursive approach also deconstructs the problematic dichotomy between "individual" and "social" research perspectives. Although each author applies his or her own analyses to the discourse generated by students and teachers grappling with mathematical problems, their joint aim is to put discursive research into the limelight and to spur thinking about its nature and its possible advantages and pitfalls. This volume is therefore addressed both to those interested in specific questions regarding classroom communication, and to those who are looking for a general conceptual lens with which to tackle the complexity of mathematical teaching and learning. Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2003

Who reads Learning Discourse : Discursive Approaches to Research in Mathematics Education?

Author

Anna Sfard (auth.), Carolyn Kieran, Ellice Forman, Anna Sfard (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306480850

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Education, Mathematics