The Body in Mathematics

Theoretical and Methodological Lenses
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-40541-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 706 g

Reihe: Mathematics Teaching and Learning

An embodied perspective on mathematical thinking, teaching and learning has grown from early theoretical and empirical work in the 90’s to a diverse and productive collection of approaches today. The aim of this book is to survey the landscape of these approaches and to provide empirical examples of research and an in-depth analysis of the most influential perspectives on embodiment and mathematics. More particularly, the book clarifies differences and points of contact among several theoretical and methodological frameworks that all take embodiment as a core construct in understanding mathematical thinking, and illustrates in a concrete way the affordances of each of these frameworks.

Contributors are: Dor Abrahamson, Martha W. Alibali, Corey Brady, James A. Dixon, Laurie Edwards, Virginia J. Flood, Susan Gerofsky, Christina Krause, Ricardo Nemirovsky, Matthew Petersen, Luis Radford, Wolff-Michael Roth, Anna Shvarts, and Ashwin Vaidya.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edwards, Laurie D.

Krause, Christina M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Locating the Body in Mathematics

Laurie D. Edwards and Christina M. Krause

2 Bodies, Incorporeals, and the Birth of a Mathematical Diagram

Ricardo Nemirovsky

3 Embodied Experimentation with Alberti’s Window

Corey Brady

4 Sensed Objects, Sensing Subjects: Embodiment from a Dialectical Materialist Perspective

Luis Radford

5 Action, Attention, and Multimodal Scaffolding: A Cognitive-Developmental Perspective on Embodiment, Interaction, and Activity

Martha W. Alibali

6 Intercorporeal Functional Dynamic System: A Dual Eye-Tracking Study of Student-Tutor Collaboration on a Mathematics Embodied Design

Anna Shvarts and Dor Abrahamson

7 Ecological Foundations to the Creation of New Meaning

James A. Dixon, Matthew Petersen and Ashwin Vaidya

8 Experiencing Mathematical Relationships at a Variety of Scales through Body Movement, Voice, and Touch

Susan Gerofsky

9 Mathematical Enskilment: Embodied Apprenticeships in Mathematical Taskscapes

Virginia J. Flood

10 Modalities, Image Schemas, and Mathematical Proof

Laurie D. Edwards

11 Event as Minimal Unit of Analysis: A Transactional Perspective on the Role of the Body in Mathematical Cognition

Wolff-Michael Roth

12 Discussion

Laurie D. Edwards and Christina M. Krause

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Über Autor(innen)

Laurie D. Edwards is Professor of Education, Emerita at Saint Mary's College of California. Her research addresses learning and cognition, embodiment, and the multiple modalities involved in doing, teaching, and learning mathematics. She is particularly interested in gesture and cognitive linguistics in mathematics.

Christina M. Krause is Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Graz in Austria. Her research centers around the topics of language, embodiment, and multimodality in mathematics thinking and learning, integrating both individual and social perspectives, with a particular interest in understandings and practices of diversity and inclusion related to mathematics education.