From intended curriculum to written curriculum: Examining the "voice" of a mathematics textbook

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 344-369

  Herbel Eisenmann, Beth A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Curriculum; Discourse analysis; Epistemology; Language and mathematics; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447566124     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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