Review
Book Review: Re-rooting the Learning Space: Minding where Children's mathematics grow, by Jennifer S. Thom
Canadian journal of environmental education, Vol.18, pp.196-198
2013
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Abstract
Jennifer Thom’s first single-authored book is an engaging and organic approach to complex learning theory and mathematics. At first glance, the reader is met with an intertextual exploration of mathematics education through ecological sensibility, thought, and diverse ways of knowing. Yet what is most striking about this book is its playfulness, and the ease with which Thom explains concepts. As the reader opens the first page, she/he is invited to consider the living systems of a tree as an analogy of learning systems, and is invited to interact with this book as one might with various parts of a tree: “that any one leaf is neither directly connected to the other leaves nor does one need to view them in any particular sequence” (p. xi). Through this acknowledgement of parts, Thom also accepts the interconnected nature of mathematics and an ecological sensibility. What follows this initial statement is a key, of sorts, to help interpret the intentional complexity of the text, visuals, font choice, shading, and type-setting.
Details
- Title
- Book Review: Re-rooting the Learning Space: Minding where Children's mathematics grow, by Jennifer S. Thom
- Creators
- Nicholas Stanger (Author)
- Publication Details
- Canadian journal of environmental education, Vol.18, pp.196-198
- Publisher
- Lakehead University
- Identifiers
- 991013136212102368
- Copyright
- Copyright © Canadian Journal of Environmental Education (CJEE)
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Review