What does understanding mathematics mean for teachers? : relationship as a metaphor for knowing / Yuichi Handa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handa, Yuichi, author.

Series:

Studies in curriculum theory.

Studies in curriculum theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching--United States.

Mathematics.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 connaître sense is to know a pers

Contents:

1. Introduction to a phenomenon

1.9. A tangent prior to the rise (and run)

2. Relationship as reciprocity : grace

3. A bringing forth of self : will

4. Relationship as interest

5. 'Doing' mathematics and its relation to the life path of being a mathematics teacher/educator.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-87052-0

1-283-10514-4

9786613105141

1-136-87053-9

0-203-83743-6

9780203837436

OCLC:

713022985