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Scientific & Mathematical Bodies
This book is about the sensuous, living body without which individual knowing and learning is impossible. It is the interface between the individual and culture. Recent scholarship …
Science Education from People for People
Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book introduces science educators to various …
Science Education during Early Childhood
Children’s learning and understanding of science during their pre-school years has been a neglected topic in the education literature—something this volume aims to redress. …
Re/Constructing Elementary Science
"Re/Constructing Elementary Science" seeks to improve the way science is taught in the elementary school. There are three main contradictions that make it difficult for teachers …
Mathematical Representation at the Interface of Body and Culture
Over the past two decades, the theoretical interests of mathematics educators have changed substantially - as any brief look at the titles and abstracts of articles shows. Largely …
Talking Science
This book is about the fundamental nature of talk in school science. Language as a formal system provides resources for conducting everyday affairs, including the doing of science. …
Imagination of Science in Education
Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most …
Rethinking Scientific Literacy
Rethinking Scientific Literacy presents a new perspective on science learning as a tool for improving communities. By focusing on case studies inside and outside of the classroom, …
Uncertainty and Graphing in Discovery Work
This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a 5-year ethnographic study in an advanced …
Semiotics in Mathematics Education
This volume discusses semiotics in mathematics education as an activity with a formal sign system, in which each sign represents something else. Theories presented by Saussure, …
Language, Learning, Context
In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment?How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most …
Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education
This book provides an essential introduction to the state-of the-art in interdisciplinary Mathematics Education. First, it begins with an outline of the field’s relevant …