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Intersecting Language Repertoires When 4-Year-Olds Count

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In this chapter, we consider an interaction among a researcher and four 4-year-old boys who were asked to count beans. By recognizing multiple discourses at play, we problematize the identification of this (and other) interaction as a mathematical (or counting) situation. We identify aspects of the children’s language repertoires and consider how they index various discourses and authority structures. We ask how these discourses intersect in the interaction, and then identify potential implications for education practice and research.

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This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as part of a grant entitled “Students’ language repertoires for investigating mathematics” (Principal Investigator: David Wagner).

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada

    David Wagner

  2. Malmö University, Karl xii gata 8a, 222 20, Lund, Sweden

    Annica Andersson

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  1. Education Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA

    Judit N. Moschkovich

  2. Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

    David Wagner

  3. Centre for Education Innovation and Action, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India

    Arindam Bose

  4. Faculty of Education, State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Jackeline Rodrigues Mendes

  5. Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Marcus Schütte

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Wagner, D., Andersson, A. (2018). Intersecting Language Repertoires When 4-Year-Olds Count. In: Moschkovich, J., Wagner, D., Bose, A., Rodrigues Mendes, J., Schütte, M. (eds) Language and Communication in Mathematics Education. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75055-2_9

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