1st Edition
What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers? Relationship as a Metaphor for Knowing
By Yuichi Handa
Copyright 2011
164 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgments
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
An Epilogue in Two Parts
Part 1: Returning to the Episode of the Straitjacket
Part 2: Relationship as a Returning: Going Past "Understanding"
Appendix: A Narrativized "Methodology"
References
Biography
Yuichi Handa is Assistant Professor of Mathematics, California State University, Chico.
