What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers? - 9781138017764

Name: What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers? - 9781138017764
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers?Relationship as a Metaphor for Knowing\nAuthor(s): Yuichi Handa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138017764, 978-1138017764\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nIn 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 example, to know in the savoir sense is to know things, facts, names, how and why things work, and so on, whereas to know in the connatre sense is to know a person, a place, or even a thingnamely, an other in such a way that one is familiar with, or in relationship with this other. Primarily through phenomenological reflection with a touch of emp.