Overview
- First volume to empirically connect various didactical theories through five different theoretical lenses
- Presents networking as a research practice in four comprehensible case studies
- Offers reflection on networking practices from different perspectives
- With critical comments from Kenneth Ruthven and Luis Radford
- Unique collaboration between internationally renowned specialist in the field
Part of the book series: Advances in Mathematics Education (AME)
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About this book
How can we deal with the diversity of theories in mathematics education? This was the main question that led the authors of this book to found the Networking Theories Group. Starting from the shared assumption that the existence of different theories is a resource for mathematics education research, the authors have explored the possibilities of interactions between theories, such as contrasting, coordinating, and locally integrating them.
The book explains and illustrates what it means to network theories; it presents networking as a challenging but fruitful research practice and shows how the Group dealt with this challenge considering five theoretical approaches, namely the approach of Action, Production, and Communication (APC), the Theory of Didactical Situations (TDS), the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD), the approach of Abstraction in Context (AiC), and the Theory of Interest-Dense Situations (IDS).
A synthetic presentation of each theory and their connections shows how the activity of networking generates questions at the theoretical, methodological and practical levels and how the work on these questions leads to both theoretical and practical progress. The core of the book consists of four new networking case studies which illustrate what exactly can be gained by this approach and what kind of difficulties might arise.
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Keywords
- Abstraction in Context (AiC)
- Action, Production and Communication Theory (APC)
- Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD)
- Connecting math education theories
- Diversity of didactical theories in math education
- Epistemic processes in mathematics education
- Interest Dense Situation Theory (IDS)
- Networking as research practice
- Networking theories in mathematics education
- Semiotic resources in the classroom
- Social interactions in mathematics classes
- Theory of Didactical Situations (TDS)
- Topaze effect
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction
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Diversity of Theories
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Case Studies of Networking
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Networking of Theories as a Research Practice in Mathematics Education
Editors: Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs, Susanne Prediger
Series Title: Advances in Mathematics Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05389-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05388-2Published: 04 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38070-4Published: 11 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05389-9Published: 25 August 2014
Series ISSN: 1869-4918
Series E-ISSN: 1869-4926
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 329
Number of Illustrations: 124 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematics Education, Epistemology, International and Comparative Education