[Maths-Education] Maths Edn Competition
Tanner H.F.
h.f.tanner@swansea.ac.uk
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:02:16 +0100
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
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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.
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