
Weeding and Sowing
Preface to a Science of Mathematical Education
Hans Freudenthal(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 29. February 1980
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 314 pages
978-90-277-1072-7 (ISBN)
Description
A title that sounds like poetry, and a subtitle that seems to contradict the title! But the subtitle is right, and originally it was just the title. A strange subtitle, isn't it? Preface to a Science of Mathematical Education. All sciences - in their prenatal stage - have known this kind of literature: only the term used was not 'Preface', but, for instance, 'Prolegomena', which * means the same though it sounds less provisional. In fact such works were thicker than the present one, by up to ten times. There is much more that can be said about a science before it comes into being than after; with the first results comes modesty. This is the preface to a book that will never be written: not by me, nor by anybody else. Once a science of mathematical education exists, it will get the preface it deserves. Nevertheless this preface - or what for honesty's sake I have labelled so - must fulfil a function: the function of accelerating the birth of a science of mathematical education, which isseriously impeded by the unfounded view that such already exists. Against this view I have to argue: it rests on a wrong estimation - both over and under estimation at the same time - of what is to be considered as science.
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Edition
1978
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
IX, 314 p.
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-1072-7 (9789027710727)
DOI
10.1007/0-306-47234-1
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Book
12/1977
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
What Is Science?.- On Education.- On a Science of Education.- A Science of Mathematical Education.