Discourse Perspective of Geometric Thoughts

Download or read book Discourse Perspective of Geometric Thoughts written by Sasha Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sasha Wang revisits the van Hiele model of geometric thinking with Sfard’s discursive framework to investigate geometric thinking from a discourse perspective. The author focuses on describing and analyzing pre-service teachers’ geometric discourse across different van Hiele levels. The explanatory power of Sfard’s framework provides a rich description of how pre-service teachers think in the context of quadrilaterals. It also contributes to our understanding of human thinking that is illustrated through the analysis of geometric discourse accompanied by vignettes.