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Learning Discourse: Discursive approaches to research in mathematics education - Softcover

 
9789048161751: Learning Discourse: Discursive approaches to research in mathematics education

Synopsis

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 communication failure. By equating thinking with communicating, the discursive approach also deconstructs the problematic dichotomy between "individual" and "social" research perspectives.

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