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Routledge
230 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1995. In the past decade or two, the most important theoretical perspective to emerge in mathematics education has been that of constructivism. This burst onto the international scene at the controversial Eleventh International Conference on the Psychology of Mathematics Education in Montreal in the summer of 1987. No one there will forget von Glasersfeld's authoritative plenary... Read more
Chapter 1 Growing up Constructivist; Chapter 2 Unpopular Philosophical Ideas; Chapter 3 Piaget’s Constructivist Theory of Knowing; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6 Constructing Agents; Chapter 7 On Language, Meaning, and Communication; Chapter 8 The Cybernetic Connection; Chapter 9; Chapter 10 To Encourage Students’ Conceptual Constructing;
Biography
Ernst von Glasersfeld is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Member of the Board of Trustees, American Society for Cybernetics, from whom he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991; a Member of the Scientific Board, lnstituto Piaget, Lisbon; and Editorial Consultant to a number of international journals.
