Ritualisation in early number work

In this paper, we propose a way of thinking about ritual that is new to mathematics education research and that challenges the more common approaches to ritual that dichotomise thinking and acting. We argue for a material, monist conceptualisation of ritual, which we refer to as ritualisation. In th...

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Published in:Educational studies in mathematics 2019-06, Vol.101 (2), p.177-194
Main Authors: Coles, Alf, Sinclair, Nathalie
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Education
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Numbers
Repetition
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Ritual
Rote Learning
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