Researching the Socio-Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education: Issues of Power in Theory and Methodology

by P. Valero and Paola Valero

Mathematics education research as a discipline is situated at the confluence of an array of diffuse' seemingly incommensurable' and radically divergent discourses. Research claims that have grown out of mathematics education are wide-ranging and antagonistic rather than circumscribed by hidebound disciplinary frames. While there has never been a unified' totalising discipline of knowledge labelled 'mathematics education research'' and while it has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402079060
• ISBN13: 9781402079061
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"