Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair

Mathematics and the Body

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This books presents an 'inclusive materialist' approach to studying mathematics education, which offers a fresh perspective on human and nonhuman bodies and their relationship to mathematical concepts. The authors provide empirical examples to challenge current assumptions about the role of the senses, language, and ability in teaching and learning mathematics.

Produktdetails

• Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781107039483
• ISBN-10: 1107039487
• Artikelnr.: 40569950

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth de Freitas is an associate professor at the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education at Adelphi University. She is the co-editor of Opening the Research Text: Critical Insights and In(ter)ventions into Mathematics Education (2008) and an associate editor of the journal Educational Studies in Mathematics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. When does a body become a body?
2. The 'ontological turn' of inclusive materialism
3. Diagrams, gestures, movement
4. Inventiveness in the mathematics classroom
5. Materialist approaches to mathematics classroom discourse
6. The sensory politics of the body mathematical
7. Mapping the cultural formation of the mathematical aesthetic
8. The virtuality of mathematical concepts
Conclusion.