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The Importance of Discourse in Mathematics Education
In a recent article, an international group of psychology of mathematics education worked on the top things that they could be working on. They were: Ethnomathematics, sociology, and discourse. I was really disappointed in that list, apart from all the other disappointments that came so far. It starts doing some philosophical theorizing in this way that I find to be just incredibly unhelpful. And then it goes into what it says is the theoretical underpinnings of this theory that they have. So, actually, because there's so much language like this, I think I'll quote one for you and then it will hurt your ears a bit,. but just to give you the