Growing-Making Mathematics: A Dynamic Perspective on People, Materials, and Movement in Classrooms

Autor/in	Roth, Wolff-Michael
Titel	Growing-Making Mathematics: A Dynamic Perspective on People, Materials, and Movement in Classrooms
Quelle	In: Educational Studies in Mathematics, 93 (2016) 1, S.87-103 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1954
DOI	10.1007/s10649-016-9695-6
Schlagwörter	Mathematics Education; Theories; Mathematics Curriculum; Females; Case Studies; Concept Formation; Knowledge Level; Mathematical Concepts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathematische Bildung; Theory; Theorie; Weibliches Geschlecht; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Wissensbasis
Abstract	Recent theoretical advances on learning (mathematics) emphasize the fact that what results from engagement with curriculum materials is not entirely in the control of the students in the way classical theories of knowing and learning suggest. These new theories distinguish themselves by either invoking distributed agency, some of which is attributed to non-human aspects of the environment, or by emphasizing the essential (radical) passivity that characterizes coming to know. In this study, an alternative is offered: "making" as a modality of growing. This move allows us to capture theoretically that both growers-makers and their materials grow (old) together. The proposed approach troubles existing ones because it shifts our perspective from a transitive relation between students and the curricular objects to an intransitive one, where the becoming of each is described in terms of Deleuzian "lines" of flight. A case study involving two girls and tangram pieces is described in terms of "growing together" and "becoming-hexagon." Implications are discussed for how researchers can capture the non-agential, non-causal dimensions of coming to know. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01