Mathematics Education and Subjectivity Cultures and Cultural Renewal /

• Main Author: Brown, Tony (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 51
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.

This book rethinks mathematical teaching and learning with view to changing them to meet or resist emerging demands. Through considering how teachers, students and researchers make sense of their worlds, the book explores how some linguistic and socio-cultural locations link to prevalent conceptions...

Table of Contents:

• About the author. - Acknowledgements. - 1  Introduction. – 2 The regulation of spatial perception
• 3 Cultural mediation of mathematics
• 4 Teacher conceptions of curriculum. 5 Subjectivity in mathematics education research
• 6 Lacanian subject of mathematical learning
• 7 The cultural renewal of mathematical learning
• 8  The political shaping of mathematical learning
• 9 Concluding remarks
• References
• Index.