Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives

by Wolff-Michael Roth

Book Overview

During the summer of 1990, while taking my holidays to teach a university course of physics for elementary teachers, I also tutored one of the tenth-grade students at my school in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. In return for working with him for free, I had requested permission to audiotape our sessions; I wanted to use the transcripts as data sources for a chapter that I had been in- vited to write. It so happened that I discovered and read...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402013760
• ISBN13: 9781402013768
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 8.9"