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Tiêu đề
Mathematics as Liberal Education: Whitehead and the Rhythm of Life
Tác giả
Woodhouse H.
Năm xuất bản
2012
Source title
Interchange
Số trích dẫn
5
DOI
10.1007/s10780-012-9169-4
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
In several of his works, Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) presents mathematics as a way of learning about general ideas that increase our understanding of the universe. The danger is that students get bogged down in its technical operations. He argues that mathematics should be an integral part of a new kind of liberal education, incorporating science, the humanities, and "technical education" (making things with one's hands), thereby integrating "head-work and hand-work." In order to appreciate the role mathematics plays in modern science, students should understand its diverse history which is capable of bringing abstract ideas to life. Moreover, mathematics can discern the alternating rhythms of repetition and difference in nature constituting the periodicity of life. Since these same rhythms are to be found in his theory of learning as growth, there appears to be a pattern linking Whitehead's approach to mathematics and his educational philosophy. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
Từ khóa
History of mathematics; Integrating the curriculum; Liberal education; Mathematics; Periodicity; Rhythm of life; Rhythmic cycles of growth; Technical education; Whitehead
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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