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Download or read book Learning Discourse written by C. Kieran and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this volume claim that mathematics can be usefully re-conceptualized as a special form of communication. As a result, the familiar discussion of mental schemes, misconceptions, and cognitive conflict is transformed into a consideration of activity, patterns of interaction, and communication failure. By equating thinking with communicating, the discursive approach also deconstructs the problematic dichotomy between "individual" and "social" research perspectives.