Curriculum Vitae and Scholarship

Review by Margaret Walshaw, Educational Studies in Mathematics

"This book is likely to have a substantial impact on the landscape of pedagogical thinking. The pedagogy is a model for how to be engaged in life, in this sense presenting a personal vision that informs more than how to teach."

--David Kirshner, Lousiana State University

"Embracing Mathematics presents a wealth of educational ideas. It provides lenses for seeing classroom practice as open to fascinating changes. Emerging as a powerful collective achievement, it provides a dialogical opening of post-modern trends in critical mathematics education, seen as practice, as research, and as a learning for everybody."

--Ole Skovsmose, Aalborg University, Denmark

"This is a book that helps the reader think about his/her practice. It guides teachers in a quest for teaching methods that will enable students to develop a critical mind, which should be the goal of all mathematics education. But it is also an extraordinary practical book that along with stimulating ideas provides numerous applications, which are immediately useful in the mathematics classroom."

--Corinne Hahn, Advancia-Negocia and European School of Management; President, International Commission for Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching

Outstanding Book Award, AERA Division B, 2009

"Appelbaum's thinking is at the leading edge (perhaps several leading edges) of curriculum inquiry internationally."

--Noel Gough, LaTrobe University, Australia

"Peter Appelbaum has written an enormously erudite and important book about learning and teaching. Weaving together theories of curriculum, popular culture, literary engagement and pedagogy, he insightfully shows how deep insight emerges from the detours of teaching, and that the teacher's task is not to specify curriculum but, rather, to occasion learning. This book is an intellectual tour de force that will be of great interest to both beginning and experienced teachers."

--Dennis Sumara, University of British Columbia, CA

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