A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Eighty years ago, L. S. Vygotsky complained that psychology was misled in studying thought independent of emotion. This situation has not significantly changed, as most learning scientists continue to study cognition independent of emotion. In this book,

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SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS SERIES Volume 2 Series Editors Adalira Saénz-Ludlow Luis Radford

Editorial Board Ferdinando Arzarello Paul Ernest Juan Godino Michael Hoffmann Falk Seeger Carlos E. Vasco

A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning By Wolff-Michael Roth University of Victoria, Canada and Luis Radford Université Laurentienne, Ontario, Canada

SENSE PUBLISHERS ROTTERDAM / BOSTON / TAIPEI

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ISBN 978-94-6091-562-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-94-6091-563-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-94-6091-564-2 (e-book)

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Contents

Preface 1 Toward a Science of the Subject

vii 1

2 Reproduction and Transformation of Affect in Activity

29

3 Learning as Objectification

47

4 Developmental Possibilities in/from Activity

69

5 Re/Theorizing the Zone of Proximal Development

91

6 The Dual Nature of the Object/Motive

111

7 From Subjectification to Personality

127

8 A Cultural-Historical Science of Learning

141

Appendix

157

References

175

Index

181

Preface

Eighty years ago, L. S. Vygotsky complained that psychology was misled in studying thought independent of emotion. This situation has not significantly changed, as most learning scientists continue to study cognition independent of emotion. Situated in activity theory – as developed by A. N. Leont’ev and Klaus Holzkamp – we investigate in this book the mutually constitutive nature of cognition and emotion. Activity theory not only stipulates the relation between individual and culture in very different ways than any other theory, but also emphasizes the constitutive role of emotions in knowing and being. To investigate the mutually constitutive nature of cognition and emotion we draw on data from our longitudinal research program about the teaching and learning of algebra in elementary schools. We show (a) how emotions are reproduced and transformed in and through activity and (b) that in assessments of students about their progress in the activity, cognitive and emotional dimensions cannot be separated. Second, our analysis exhibits three main features: (a) the irreducible connection between emotion and cognition mediates teacher-student interactions; (b) the zone of proximal development is itself a historical and cultural emergent product of joint teacher-students activity; and (c) as an outcome of joint activity, the object/motive of activity emerges

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