The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality (Critical Psychology Series) - Softcover

Walkerdine, Valerie

 
9780415052337: The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality (Critical Psychology Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415052335 ISBN 13: 9780415052337
Verlag: Routledge, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

This study of children's cognitive development engages with current debates about the "individual" and the "social context" in accounts of children's mathematical development. However, the author seeks to go beyond these debates to establish the empirical and theoretical base for a different kind of understanding of the social and psychological production of reason and rationality. She does so by presenting empirical material concerning children's learning of mathematics, both at home and in the early years of schooling. The book is packed with interchanges between mothers or teachers and children. However, an analysis of the apparently innocent subject of children's mathematical development can also offer profound and disturbing insights into the way in which our bourgeois democracy is maintained. Valerie Walkerdine shows how notions of rationality and the triumph over reason, which are encouraged in the teaching of mathematics, are an early induction into the fantasy of control over a calculable universe, necessary to sustain our present social and political order.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415052335
ISBN 13 
9780415052337
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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