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Mathematics Education and Language: Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism

By Tony Brown

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1997
ISBN
9780306472138, 9780792345541, 0792345541
LCC
QA11 .B846 1997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1977895 bytes)
Series
Mathematics Education Library 20
Edition
1s
Pages
281\281
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

`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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