[Maths-Education] Maths Edn Competition

[Tanner H.F.]

One imagines that constructs are the products of construction.

When one uses too much scaffolding and builds on too rigid a structure =
they
may become set in concrete.

These days many of mine only exist in cyberspace.

Dr Howard Tanner
University of Wales Swansea
Department of Education
Hendrefoelan
Swansea
SA2 7NB

e-mail:=A0 h.f.tanner@swan.ac.uk
Fax: 01792 298499
Tel:=A0 01792 518642

"Education relieves you of the burden of having to believe everything =
you
are told." --Robert Leamnson

Why not visit my web page on
http://www.swan.ac.uk/education/staff/hftanner/index.html

Or look at my recent books at:
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-7449646-0205428
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Rowlands [mailto:S.Rowlands@plymouth.ac.uk]
Sent: 26 October 2001 16:44
To: maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Maths-Education] Maths Edn Competition


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P.S.

What are 'constructs'?  Would radical constructivism count as a=20
construct or are constructs merely part of the language that is=20
particular to educators in academe, such as 'label', 'facilitating=20
cognitive transformation', 'conceptual ecology', 'negotiation of=20
meaning', 'dialogical interactive processes', 'community of=20
discourse', 'mathematization', 'cognitive apprenticeship' . . . etc.

Stuart the Popular.=20


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