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- Publication in the fields of mathematics education and gestures studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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State of the Art and Theoretical Background
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The Study
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Back Matter
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About this book
In her empirical study, Christina Krause investigates how gestures can contribute to epistemic processes in social interactions. She expands the traditional speech-based approach to analyzing social processes of constructing mathematical knowledge by employing a multimodal perspective. Adopting a semiotic approach, she takes into account two functions of gestures as signs used by the participants of the social interaction: the representational function concerns the ways in which gestures take part in referring to a mathematical object in processes of knowledge construction and the epistemic function relates to the ways in which they can contribute to the performance of collective epistemic actions. The results of this study reveal that gestures influence the epistemic process significantly more than previously thought and indicate factors underlying this influence.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christina Marie Krause earned her PhD at the University of Bremen. She currently holds a postdoctoral position at the Mathematics Education working group of the University of Duisburg-Essen and works as a researcher and lecturer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Mathematics in Our Hands
Book Subtitle: How Gestures Contribute to Constructing Mathematical Knowledge
Authors: Christina M Krause
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11948-5
Publisher: Springer Spektrum Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-11947-8Published: 19 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-11948-5Published: 08 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 350
Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematics Education