What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers?: Relationship as a Metaphor for Knowing Contributor(s): Handa, Yuichi (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138017760 ISBN-13: 9781138017764 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Mathematics - Education | Curricula - Mathematics | Study & Teaching |
Dewey: 510.71 |
Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.55 lbs) 164 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book opens up alternative ways of thinking and talking about ways in which a person can "know" a subject (in this case, mathematics), leading to a reconsideration of what it may mean to be a teacher of that subject. In a number of European languages, a distinction is made in ways of knowing that in the English language is collapsed into the singular word know. In French, for example, to know in the savoir sense is to know things, facts, names, how and why things work, and so on, whereas to know in the conna tre sense is to know a person, a place, or even a thing--namely, an other-- in such a way that one is familiar with, or in relationship with this other. Primarily through phenomenological reflection with a touch of empirical input, this book fleshes out an image for what a person's conna tre knowing of mathematics might mean, turning to mathematics teachers and teacher educators to help clarify this image. |