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Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity - An ICMI Study Book 1 (Paperback, 1998 ed.)
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Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity - An ICMI Study Book 1 (Paperback, 1998 ed.)
Series: New ICMI Study Series, 4
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No one disputes how important it is, in today's world, to prepare
students to un derstand mathematics as well as to use and
communicate mathematics in their future lives. That task is very
difficult, however. Refocusing curricula on funda mental concepts,
producing new teaching materials, and designing teaching units
based on 'mathematicians' common sense' (or on logic) have not
resulted in a better understanding of mathematics by more students.
The failure of such efforts has raised questions suggesting that
what was missing at the outset of these proposals, designs, and
productions was a more profound knowledge of the phenomena of
learning and teaching mathematics in socially established and
culturally, politically, and economically justified institutions -
namely, schools. Such knowledge cannot be built by mere
juxtaposition of theories in disci plines such as psychology,
sociology, and mathematics. Psychological theories focus on the
individual learner. Theories of sociology of education look at the
general laws of curriculum development, the specifics of pedagogic
discourse as opposed to scientific discourse in general, the
different possible pedagogic rela tions between the teacher and the
taught, and other general problems in the inter face between
education and society. Mathematics, aside from its theoretical
contents, can be looked at from historical and epistemological
points of view, clarifying the genetic development of its concepts,
methods, and theories. This view can shed some light on the meaning
of mathematical concepts and on the difficulties students have in
teaching approaches that disregard the genetic development of these
concepts."
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