Mathematics Education and Language: Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism: 20 (Mathematics Education Library, 20) - Softcover

Brown, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9401738009 ISBN 13: 9789401738002

Publisher: Springer, 2014

Synopsis

`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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Review

`Mathematics Education and Language is a highly recommendable book. The book contains many richly described episodes of mathematical activities.'
Linguistics and Education, 12:2 (2001)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401738009
• ISBN 13: 9789401738002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279