Learning Discourse Discursive approaches to research in mathematics education /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kieran, Carolyn. (Editor), Forman, Ellice. (Editor), Sfard, Anna. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

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 communi...

Table of Contents:

• There is More to Discourse than Meets the Ears: Looking at Thinking as Communicating to Learn More About Mathematical Learning
• Educational Forms of Initiation in Mathematical Culture
• Cultural, Discursive Psychology: A Sociocultural Approach to Studying the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
• The Multiple Voices of a Mathematics Classroom Community
• ỚSCan any Fraction be Turned into a Decimal?Ớ<U+00fd> A Case Study of a Mathematical Group Discussion
• The Mathematical Discourse of 13-Year-Old Partnered Problem Solving and Its Relation to the Mathematics That Emerges
• Making Mathematical Meaning Through Dialogue: ỚSOnce You Think of It, the Z Minus Three Seems Pretty WeirdỚ<U+00fd>
• From Describing to Designing Mathematical Activity: The Next Step in Developing a Social Approach to Research in Mathematics Education?
• Research on Discourse in the Mathematics Classroom: A Commentary.