Learning mathematics : from hierarchies to networks

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword Leone Burton; Abandoning Hierarchies, Abandoning Dichotomies; Voice, Perspective, Bias and Stance: Applying and Modifying Piagetian Theory in Mathematics Education; The Implications of a Narrative Approach to the Learning of Mathematics; Establishing a Community of Practice in a Secondary Mathematics Classroom; Paths of Learning; The Joint Constitution of Insights; Commentary Abandoning Hierarchies, Abandoning Dichotomies; Mathematics as a Socio-cultural Artefact.
How and why is mathematics taught? This book seeks to improve on our current answers. The contributors provide various perspectives in this richly cross-referenced work. Relevant to policy makers, practitioners and researchers.