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Principal Investigator: Anna Sfard
Studies conducted as a part of this program are guided by communicational approach to cognition according to which thinking can be regarded as a form of communication. Within this framework, learning is conceptualized as an initiation to a particular form of communication known as mathematical. The communicational approach brings to the fore several aspects of learning that have not been considered in the traditional cognitive research. This is a comprehensive framework that enables reformulating old questions about learning and teaching mathematics, as well posing new ones. It also provides methods with which these questions can be investigated. Currently, studies are being conducted on the development of discourses on numbers, infinity, and geometry, on teacher's discourses in high-school mathematics classrooms, and on mathematical discourses of students diagnosed with learning disability in mathematics. Program directed by Anna Sfard.
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