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Mathematics Education and Language: Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism

Mathematics Education and Language: Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism

Brown, Tony

Paperback

Series: Mathematics Education Library, Book 20

General EducationGeneral MathematicsTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 9401738009
ISBN13: 9789401738002
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2014
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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