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Author Hwang, SungWon

Title Scientific & mathematical bodies : the interface of culture and mind / by SungWon Hwang and Wolff-Michael Roth
Published Rotterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Sense Publishers, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) : illustrations
Series New directions in mathematics and science education ; v. 22
New directions in mathematics and science education ; v. 22.
Contents Introduction: Toward a theory of the body in scientific and mathematical cognition -- pt. A. From the sense of the body to the body of sense -- pt. B. The role of the body in sense making -- pt. C. The body in a strange world
Summary This book is about the sensuous, living body without which individual knowing and learning is impossible. It is the interface between the individual and culture. Recent scholarship has moved from investigated knowing and learning as something in the mind or brain to understanding these phenomena in terms of the body (embodiment literature) or culture (social constructivism). These two literatures have expanded the understanding of cognition to include the role of the body in shaping the mind and to recognize the tight relation between mind and culture. However, there are numerous problems arising from ways in which the body and culture are thought in these separate research domains. In this book, the authors present an interdisciplinary, scientific initiative that brings together the concerns for body and for culture to develop a single theory of cognition centered on the living and lived body. This book thereby contributes to bridging the gap that currently exists between theory (knowing that) and praxis (knowing how) that is apparent in the existing science and mathematics education literatures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index
Notes English
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Subject Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Science -- Study and teaching
Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
Sciences sociales.
Droit.
Sciences humaines.
Knowledge, Theory of
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Science -- Study and teaching
Embodiment
Kognitives Lernen
Kulturelle Identität
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung
Form Electronic book
Author Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953-
ISBN 9789460915673
9460915671
128078542X
9781280785429
9786613695819
6613695815
Other Titles Scientific and mathematical bodies