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What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers?: Relationship as a Metaphor for Knowing (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series) - Softcover

Book 22 of 88: Studies in Curriculum Theory

Handa, Yuichi

 
9781138017764: What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers?: Relationship as a Metaphor for Knowing (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138017760 ISBN 13: 9781138017764
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This book opens up alternative ways of thinking and talking about ways in which a person can "know" a subject (in this case, mathematics), leading to a reconsideration of what it may mean to be a teacher of that subject.

In a number of European languages, a distinction is made in ways of knowing that in the English language is collapsed into the singular word know. In French, for example, to know in the savoir sense is to know things, facts, names, how and why things work, and so on, whereas to know in the connaître sense is to know a person, a place, or even a thing―namely, an other― in such a way that one is familiar with, or in relationship with this other. Primarily through phenomenological reflection with a touch of empirical input, this book fleshes out an image for what a person’s connaître knowing of mathematics might mean, turning to mathematics teachers and teacher educators to help clarify this image.

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About the Author

Yuichi Handa is Assistant Professor of Mathematics, California State University, Chico.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138017760
ISBN 13 
9781138017764
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
168