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Nardi, Elena 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7145-6473, Ryve, Andreas, Stadler, Erika and Viirman, Olov
(2014)
Commognitive analyses of the learning and teaching of mathematics at university level: the case of discursive shifts in the study of calculus.
Research in Mathematics Education, 16 (2).
pp. 182-198.
ISSN 1479-4802
Abstract
In this paper we outline the main tenets of the commognitive approach and we exemplify its application in studies that investigate the learning and teaching of mathematics at university level. Following an overview of such applications, we focus on three studies that explore fundamental discursive shifts often occurring in the early stages of studying Calculus. These shifts concern the lecturers' and students' communicative practices, routines of constructing mathematical objects and ways of resolving commognitive conflicts. We then propose that commognitive constructs such as subjectification can be deployed towards ‘scaling-up’ the hitherto fine-grained focus of commognitive analyses. Finally, we conclude with observing how the commognitive approach relates to constructs from other sociocultural approaches to research in university mathematics education, such as “legitimate peripheral participation” from the theory of Communities of Practice and “didactic contract” from the Theory of Didactic Situations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | university mathematics education,discourse,commognitive conflict,calculus,functions |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Research in Mathematics Education |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2016 17:00 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2023 01:46 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57408 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14794802.2014.918338 |
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