Wolff-Michael Roth

Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms

Mathematics in the Flesh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grounded in philosophical approaches to cognition, this book presents a radical reframing of how children learn geometrical concepts in their early years. The book exhibits the shortcomings of other theories, including embodiment and enactivist approaches and advances an understanding of mathematics in the flesh.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415891578
• ISBN-10: 0415891574
• Artikelnr.: 32462799

Autorenporträt

Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Victoria. He researches knowing and learning related to mathematics and science across the entire life span. His recent publications include Language, Learning, Context (Routledge, 2010), Science Education from People for People (Ed., Routledge, 2010), and Re/Structuring Science Education (Ed., Springer, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Of Hands, Flesh, and Mind A. Toward a Theory of Mathematics
in the Flesh Introduction to Part A. 1. What Makes a Cube a Cube? A
Phenomenological Overture 2. From Intellectualist Metaphysics to Embodiment
Epistemologies 3. Material Life as the Organizing Principle of Knowing B.
Stories of Mathematics in the Flesh Introduction to Part B. 4. The Flesh,
Distractions, and Mathematics 5. Coordinating Touch and Gaze:
Re/Constructing a Mystery Object 6. Emergence of Measurement as the
Realization of Geometry 7. Doing Time in Mathematical Praxis C. Emergence
of Geometry ¿ An Objective Science Introduction to Part C. 8. Ethno-methods
of Sorting Geometrically 9. Reproducing Geometry as Objective Science 10.
Rethinking Mathematical Conceptions. Epilogue: From the Flesh to Society in
the Mind