On meaning and mental representation : a pragmatic approach / / Wolff-Michael Roth.
This book is about language in STEM research and about how it is thought about: as something that somehow refers to something else not directly accessible, often «meaning», «mental representation», or «conception». Using the analyses of real data and analyses of the way certain concepts are used in...
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| Superior document: | New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education ; v.1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New directions in mathematics and science education ;
v. 26 New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education ; 1 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Frontispiece
- Language, «meaning», «mental representation», and «conceptions» in STEM research
- «Meaning» in science education
- Hunting the elusive tiger
- «Meaning» and the subject
- Culturing «conceptions»
- The language of real life and the real life of language
- The documentary method: a solution to the problem of «meaning»
- The documentary method and «mental representation»
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- References
- Index.