The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality (Critical Psychology Series)
By V. Walkerdine.
Description
This study of children's cognitive development engages with current debates about the "individual" and the "social context" in accounts of children's mathematical development. However, the author seeks to go beyond these debates to establish the empirical and theoretical base for a different kind of understanding of the social and psychological production of reason and rationality. She does so by presenting empirical material concerning children's learning of mathematics, both at home and in the early years of schooling. The book is packed with interchange...
ISBN(s)
0415052335, 9780415052337
