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 eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.

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...