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Author Handa, Yuichi.

Title What does understanding mathematics mean for teachers? : relationship as a metaphor for knowing / Yuichi Handa
Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 149 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in curriculum theory
Studies in curriculum theory.
Contents 1. Introduction to a phenomenon -- 1.9. A tangent prior to the rise (and run) -- 2. Relationship as reciprocity : grace -- 3. A bringing forth of self : will -- 4. Relationship as interest -- 5. 'Doing' mathematics and its relation to the life path of being a mathematics teacher/educator -- An epilogue in two parts. pt. I: Returning to the episode of the straightjacket. pt. II. Relationship as a returning: going past "understanding" -- App.: A narrativized "methodology."
Summary This 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record and online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost eBook Collection, viewed Oct. 14, 2013)
Subject Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States.
MATHEMATICS -- Study & Teaching.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Matematik -- studier och undervisning -- Förenta staterna.
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010035096
ISBN 9780203837436
0203837436
1283105144
9781283105149
9786613105141
6613105147
1136870539
9781136870538