[Maths-Education] Newsletter on Proof

[David H Kirshner]

Thanks so much, Kirsti.
The link did not work for me--the website said "no document specified."
Can you recheck and resend?
Thanks.
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirsti Hemmi [mailto:kirsti at math.su.se] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:49 PM
To: B.Jaworski at lboro.ac.uk
Cc: Nicolas.Balacheff at imag.fr; Mathematics Education discussion forum;
David H Kirshner; kirsti Hemmi
Subject: RE: [Maths-Education] Newsletter on Proof

Dear All,

My thesis "Approaching Proof in a Community of Mathematical Practice" is
published by VDM verlag in 2008 and can be found in many bookstores, for
example Amazon. It is also available as a pdf file at
http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?
urn_nbn_se_su_diva-1217-2__fulltext.pdf

Best wishes
Kirsti Hemmi


> Dear David and All,
> I would like to recommend a Thesis, defended in 2006, by Kirsti Hemmi
a
> Finnish mathematics education researcher who lives in Sweden. (I'm
copying
> this to her.)
> The title is: "Approaching Proof in a Community of Mathematical
Practice".
> She interviewed mathematicians and students in a university
mathematics
> department concerning their perspectives on proof and analysed her
data
> using a Community of Practice model based in the work of Lave and
Wenger
> as well as the wider literature on proof.
> I hope she will respond to this and tell you how you can access her
> thesis.
> Regards
> Barbara
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:maths-education-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
> Nicolas Balacheff
> Sent: 18 November 2008 07:26
> To: David H Kirshner
> Cc: Mathematics Education discussion forum
> Subject: Re: [Maths-Education] Newsletter on Proof
>
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> David H Kirshner wrote:
>>> I would put nuances on the claim that "expertise in proof is
primarily
>>> a matter of social development ", and prefer to say that from a
>>> learning perspective social interaction may be a lever and sometimes
>>> also an obstacle due to the intrinsic linguistic, cognitive and
social
>>> properties of argumentation.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, most theorists considering the development of proof competencies
>> would be uncomfortable with an analysis circumscribed by the social.
But
>> are there no voices in the literature urging just such a radical
>> departure?
>>
> I am not aware of such a radical position. But there several projects
> with a strong social approach (which could be socio-psychology,
> socio-linguistic, social interaction -- although there are relations,
> there are also important differences). I would suggest works from
Cobb,
> Brousseau, Ball, Herbst, Bartolini-Bussi and Boero, and others, I have
> not mase a systematic search. I send you an old paper of mine
(different
> mail), just to give you an idea of the way I understand this issue.
> Best
> Nicolas
>
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