A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Roth, Wolff-Michael (Editor), Radford, Luis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2011.
• Series: Semiotic Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics Series ; 2
• Subjects: Education.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Educational Psychology.

Eighty years ago, L. S. Vygotsky complained that psychology was misled in studying thought independent of emotion. This situation has not significantly changed, as most learning scientists continue to study cognition independent of emotion. In this book, the authors use cultural-historical activity...