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Scientific & Mathematical Bodies

The Interface of Culture and Mind

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. SungWon Hwang

    1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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  2. Wolff-Michael Roth

    1. University of Victoria, Canada

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education (NDMS, volume 22)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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    1. Introduction

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 1-18

  3. From the Sense of the Body to the Body of Sense

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-23
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    2. Mathematics in the Flesh

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 25-37

    3. Lectures as Corporeal Performances

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 39-56

  4. The Role of the Body in Sense Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-61
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    2. Literacy as Bodily Performance

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 63-75

    3. The Body in/of Mathematical Concepts

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 77-92

    4. Mathematical Inscriptions and Cultural Development

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 93-104

    5. Heterogeneous Performances and Linguistic Hybridity

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 105-114

  5. The Body in A Strange World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-118
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    2. Learning – from the Perspective of the Unknown

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 119-143

    3. The Body in/of Research Ethics

      • SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 145-163

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 165-183
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    SungWon Hwang

  • University of Victoria, Canada

    Wolff-Michael Roth

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