Representation in computational environments: Epistemological and social distance

International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 241-263

  Morgan, Candia ^a   Mariotti, Maria Alessandra ^b   Maffei, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context; Curricular distance; Epistemological distance; Feedback; Pedagogic distance; Representations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; CONTEXT; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; TEACHING AND LEARNING;

SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

TEACHING;

EID: 73849152770     PISSN: 13823892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10758-009-9156-8     Document Type: Article

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