Learning Discourse: Discursive Approaches to Research in Mathematics Education

Kieran C., Forman E., Sfard A.0306480859

Seven studies and two commentaries on them depart from conventional studies of mathematics education by considering mathematics as a form of communication. They delve into such matters as looking at thinking as communicating to learn more about mathematics learning, the multiple voices of a mathematics classroom community, the mathematical discourse of 13-year-old partnered problem solving and its relation to the mathematics that emerge, and making mathematical meaning through dialogue. They were published as a special Psychology of Mathematics Education issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics vol. 46, nos. 1-3 (2001). No index is provided