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Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms: Mathematics in the Flesh

Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms: Mathematics in the Flesh

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Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Educati

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0415891574
ISBN13: 9780415891578
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2011
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they will understand at later points in their lives. Roth's analyses explain how geometry, an objective science, arises anew from the pre-scientific but nevertheless methodic actions of children in a structured world always already shot through with significations. He presents a way of understanding knowing and learning in mathematics that differs from other current approaches, using case studies to demonstrate contradictions and incongruences of other theories - Immanuel Kant, Jean Piaget, and more recent forms of (radical, social) constructivism, embodiment theories, and enactivism - and to show how material phenomenology fused with phenomenological sociology provides answers to the problems that these other paradigms do not answer.

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