Scientific & Mathematical Bodies The Interface of Culture and Mind

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Edition:
2011
Series:
New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education (Book 22)
Author:
SungWon Hwang, Wolff-Michael Roth
ISBN:
9789460915673
Publisher:
SensePublishers
Pages:
191
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-07-15
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2011
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Nonfiction, Psychology